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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 ofrece la historia de un sombr铆o y horroroso futuro. Montag, el protagonista, pertenece a una extra帽a brigada de bomberos cuya misi贸n, parad贸jicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios sino la de provocarlos, para quemar libros. Porque en el pa铆s de Montag est谩 terminantemente prohibido leer. Porque leer obliga a pensar, y en el pa铆s de Montag esta prohibido pensar. Porque leer impide ser ingenuamente feliz, y en el pa铆s de Montag hay que ser feliz a la fuerza...
158 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 19, 1953
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Ray Bradbury
2,461听books24.2k听followersRay Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Bradbury also wrote poetry which has been published in several collections, such as They Have Not Seen the Stars (2001).
The New York Times called Bradbury "An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation" and "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Bradbury also wrote poetry which has been published in several collections, such as They Have Not Seen the Stars (2001).
The New York Times called Bradbury "An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation" and "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
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October 14, 2012
As I write this review, the year is 2012. We do not live in a perfect world; in fact, in many ways we don't even live in a good world. But one thing I believe with all my heart is that we live in a world which, on the whole, is better than it was fifty years ago. Now, I know I'm writing with limited perspective and that progression and development hasn't been the same all over the globe and even the definition of those words can change depending on what part of the world you live in. But here's what I do know: the average world life expectancy is higher, the infant mortality rate is lower, access to education is greater and the amount of countries that hold regular, fair elections has increased.
On average, people today are smarter than they were fifty years ago. And I know this is where older generations throw up their hands in indignation and start yelling about how exams were much harder in "their day" and they really had to work for it. I am not disputing this, I have no idea if it's true or not. But what is true is that more people today than ever before are going on to further education after high school, the barriers that once stopped the working class from being as smart as society's more privileged members are slowly starting to break down bit by bit. Literacy rates have been on the rise the whole world over:
It's true. We have entered the age of computers and electronics, social networking and personal media players... and the world has not ended, the robots haven't taken over and people haven't become so stupid that they feel the need to rage a war against books. And this is the main reason why I think Bradbury's dystopian tale is out of date and ineffective. The author was writing at a time when technology was really starting to get funky, the digital age was still decades away but people were doing all kinds of crazy things like listening to music with little cones plugged into their ears. Bizarre.
Readers often choose to view Bradbury's story as one about censorship instead of technology because that allows a more modern reader to connect with the world portrayed. But taken as it was intended, I just don't share the author's sentiments. Not all technology is good, but I'm of the opinion that the good outweighs the bad: medical advancements, entertainment, access to information via the internet... I'm the very opposite of a technophobe because, in my opinion, forward is the way to go. And I'm sure it's because of the age I was born into, but I cannot relate to the apprehension that Bradbury feels when he tells of this true story (note: this is not in the book):
"In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades. But only a few weeks ago, in Beverly Hills one night, a husband and wife passed me, walking their dog. I stood staring after them, absolutely stunned. The woman held in one hand a small cigarette-package-sized radio, its antenna quivering. From this sprang tiny copper wires which ended in a dainty cone plugged into her right ear. There she was, oblivious to man and dog, listening to far winds and whispers and soap-opera cries, sleep-walking, helped up and down curbs by a husband who might just as well not have been there. This was not fiction."
I know many still think today that we are becoming a completely unsociable species because of mobile/cell phones, social networking sites, etc. but I have made friends from all over the world thanks to technology. I have talked to people that fifty years ago I would never have known, I have learned about different cultures and ways of life because I have access to most areas of the world through the web. So, no, I'm not scared of this so-called technological threat that is somehow going to turn our brains to mush and create a society where we cannot concentrate long enough to read a book. And here is where I (finally) get on to details of this novel.
What I am supposed to believe in here is that - because of technology - humanity has become so stupid that they couldn't concentrate on books. So books were simplified at first for easier understanding, then banned, then burnt. Why? I am okay with the realistic aspect of "people have short attention spans because of technology so they don't want to read books", but why burn books? I don't see why this would need to happen and why it would become a criminal offense to have books in your home. This is where I understand why so many people prefer to apply this novel's message to censorship, because it works so much better that way. The argument for the technological side of it is weak - even for the time in question.
The best thing about this whole book is the discussion about the phoenix and the comparisons made between the legendary bird and humanity: in the same way that the bird dies in flames only to be reborn again from the ashes, humanity constantly repeats mistakes made throughout history and never seems to learn from them. Secondly, to give credit where it's due, the writing is suitably creepy for a dystopian society and I understand why people who do actually share Bradbury's concerns would be caught up in the novel's atmosphere. But, overall, this wasn't a great dystopian work for me, I didn't agree with the point it was trying to sell me and I don't think it made a very successful case for it. Furthermore, I had some problems with the pacing. The book is split into three parts and the first two are much slower and uneventful than the last one - which seems to explode with a fast sequence of events in a short amount of time and pages. Disappointing.
On average, people today are smarter than they were fifty years ago. And I know this is where older generations throw up their hands in indignation and start yelling about how exams were much harder in "their day" and they really had to work for it. I am not disputing this, I have no idea if it's true or not. But what is true is that more people today than ever before are going on to further education after high school, the barriers that once stopped the working class from being as smart as society's more privileged members are slowly starting to break down bit by bit. Literacy rates have been on the rise the whole world over:
It's true. We have entered the age of computers and electronics, social networking and personal media players... and the world has not ended, the robots haven't taken over and people haven't become so stupid that they feel the need to rage a war against books. And this is the main reason why I think Bradbury's dystopian tale is out of date and ineffective. The author was writing at a time when technology was really starting to get funky, the digital age was still decades away but people were doing all kinds of crazy things like listening to music with little cones plugged into their ears. Bizarre.
Readers often choose to view Bradbury's story as one about censorship instead of technology because that allows a more modern reader to connect with the world portrayed. But taken as it was intended, I just don't share the author's sentiments. Not all technology is good, but I'm of the opinion that the good outweighs the bad: medical advancements, entertainment, access to information via the internet... I'm the very opposite of a technophobe because, in my opinion, forward is the way to go. And I'm sure it's because of the age I was born into, but I cannot relate to the apprehension that Bradbury feels when he tells of this true story (note: this is not in the book):
"In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades. But only a few weeks ago, in Beverly Hills one night, a husband and wife passed me, walking their dog. I stood staring after them, absolutely stunned. The woman held in one hand a small cigarette-package-sized radio, its antenna quivering. From this sprang tiny copper wires which ended in a dainty cone plugged into her right ear. There she was, oblivious to man and dog, listening to far winds and whispers and soap-opera cries, sleep-walking, helped up and down curbs by a husband who might just as well not have been there. This was not fiction."
I know many still think today that we are becoming a completely unsociable species because of mobile/cell phones, social networking sites, etc. but I have made friends from all over the world thanks to technology. I have talked to people that fifty years ago I would never have known, I have learned about different cultures and ways of life because I have access to most areas of the world through the web. So, no, I'm not scared of this so-called technological threat that is somehow going to turn our brains to mush and create a society where we cannot concentrate long enough to read a book. And here is where I (finally) get on to details of this novel.
What I am supposed to believe in here is that - because of technology - humanity has become so stupid that they couldn't concentrate on books. So books were simplified at first for easier understanding, then banned, then burnt. Why? I am okay with the realistic aspect of "people have short attention spans because of technology so they don't want to read books", but why burn books? I don't see why this would need to happen and why it would become a criminal offense to have books in your home. This is where I understand why so many people prefer to apply this novel's message to censorship, because it works so much better that way. The argument for the technological side of it is weak - even for the time in question.
The best thing about this whole book is the discussion about the phoenix and the comparisons made between the legendary bird and humanity: in the same way that the bird dies in flames only to be reborn again from the ashes, humanity constantly repeats mistakes made throughout history and never seems to learn from them. Secondly, to give credit where it's due, the writing is suitably creepy for a dystopian society and I understand why people who do actually share Bradbury's concerns would be caught up in the novel's atmosphere. But, overall, this wasn't a great dystopian work for me, I didn't agree with the point it was trying to sell me and I don't think it made a very successful case for it. Furthermore, I had some problems with the pacing. The book is split into three parts and the first two are much slower and uneventful than the last one - which seems to explode with a fast sequence of events in a short amount of time and pages. Disappointing.
April 17, 2015
Farenheit 451 has been analyzed and reinterpreted by every successive generation to change its meaning. This is chiefly because the book is full of assumptions and vague symbolism which can be taken many ways, and rarely does anyone come away from the book with the conclusion the author intended, which would suggest that it is a failed attempt.
There are grounds to contend that even the title is inaccurate, since contemporary sources suggest paper , which in Farenheit would be more than 800 degrees. The truth is, paper combustion is gradual and dependent on many factors; even if some paper might combust at 451F, his title is at best an oversimplification, but Bradbury was more interested in a punchy message than in constructing a thoughtful and well-supported argument.
It's not a book about book censorship, but a book about how TV will rot your brain. Bradbury himself has stated this again and again, as evidenced in which quotes Bradbury and in from Bradbury's own website--indeed, in an interview, he stated he was inspired to write it because he was horrified while walking her dog. Not only does he patronizingly assume that she's listening to a soap opera, instead of news, or appreciating classical music, but it's a strangely anti-technology pose for a sci fi writer to take--does it really matter whether we get our art and knowledge from compressed tree pulp, or from radio transmissions?
This book falls somewhat short of its satirical mark based on this cranky lawn-loving neighbor's message. Then again, it was written in the course of a few days in one long, uninterrupted slurry (mercifully edited by his publishers, but now available utterly restored). It contains archetypes, misconceptions, and an author surrogate, but can still be seen as a slighting view of authority and power, and of the way people are always willing to deceive themselves.
Unfortunately, Bradbury did not seem to recognize that reading has always been the province of a minority and that television would do little to kill it. More books are written, published, and read today than at any other point in history. Most of them are just redundant filler, but so is 90% of any mass creative output, books, art, movies, or TV, as Sturgeon . And there's nothing new about that, either: cheap, trashy novels have been a joke since the Victorian.
Television is a different medium than books, and has its own strengths and weaknesses. Bradbury's critique of TV--that it will get larger, more pervasive, and become an escape for small minds--is just as true of books. As for television damaging social interaction, who is less culturally aware: the slack-jawed boy watching television or the slack-jawed boy reading one uninspired relic of genre fiction after another? I read a lot of books as a kid and watched a lot of TV, and each medium provided something different. Neither one displaced the other, since reading and watching aren't the same experience.
There is an egalitarian obsession that people are all capable of being informed and intelligent. We now send everyone to college, despite the fact that for many people, college is not a viable or useful route. The same elitism that values degrees values being 'well-read', and since this is the elitism of the current power structure, it is idealized by the less fortunate subcultures. Bradbury became informed not because he read, but by what he read. He could have read a schlocky pop novel every day for life and still been as dull as the vidscreen zombies he condemns.
He has mistaken the medium for the message, and his is a doubly mixed message, coming from a man who had .
There are grounds to contend that even the title is inaccurate, since contemporary sources suggest paper , which in Farenheit would be more than 800 degrees. The truth is, paper combustion is gradual and dependent on many factors; even if some paper might combust at 451F, his title is at best an oversimplification, but Bradbury was more interested in a punchy message than in constructing a thoughtful and well-supported argument.
It's not a book about book censorship, but a book about how TV will rot your brain. Bradbury himself has stated this again and again, as evidenced in which quotes Bradbury and in from Bradbury's own website--indeed, in an interview, he stated he was inspired to write it because he was horrified while walking her dog. Not only does he patronizingly assume that she's listening to a soap opera, instead of news, or appreciating classical music, but it's a strangely anti-technology pose for a sci fi writer to take--does it really matter whether we get our art and knowledge from compressed tree pulp, or from radio transmissions?
This book falls somewhat short of its satirical mark based on this cranky lawn-loving neighbor's message. Then again, it was written in the course of a few days in one long, uninterrupted slurry (mercifully edited by his publishers, but now available utterly restored). It contains archetypes, misconceptions, and an author surrogate, but can still be seen as a slighting view of authority and power, and of the way people are always willing to deceive themselves.
Unfortunately, Bradbury did not seem to recognize that reading has always been the province of a minority and that television would do little to kill it. More books are written, published, and read today than at any other point in history. Most of them are just redundant filler, but so is 90% of any mass creative output, books, art, movies, or TV, as Sturgeon . And there's nothing new about that, either: cheap, trashy novels have been a joke since the Victorian.
Television is a different medium than books, and has its own strengths and weaknesses. Bradbury's critique of TV--that it will get larger, more pervasive, and become an escape for small minds--is just as true of books. As for television damaging social interaction, who is less culturally aware: the slack-jawed boy watching television or the slack-jawed boy reading one uninspired relic of genre fiction after another? I read a lot of books as a kid and watched a lot of TV, and each medium provided something different. Neither one displaced the other, since reading and watching aren't the same experience.
There is an egalitarian obsession that people are all capable of being informed and intelligent. We now send everyone to college, despite the fact that for many people, college is not a viable or useful route. The same elitism that values degrees values being 'well-read', and since this is the elitism of the current power structure, it is idealized by the less fortunate subcultures. Bradbury became informed not because he read, but by what he read. He could have read a schlocky pop novel every day for life and still been as dull as the vidscreen zombies he condemns.
He has mistaken the medium for the message, and his is a doubly mixed message, coming from a man who had .
September 25, 2024
I am in 6th grade. My Language Arts teacher assigns us a book report; tells us we can choose the book but that our grade will be based on the maturity of the novel the report is based upon.
My mother and I are in K-mart. I've mentioned to her about this book report to be done, and so before we leave with a basket filled with clothes I know I will be embarrassed to wear, we stop by the rack of books. She selects a few pulp paperback titles, throws them into the cart.
A few days later she hands me Fahrenheit 451. "I've read those books I purchased," she says. "I think this is the best of the bunch. You should like it."
I am skeptical. When does a 12 year-old boy like anything that his mother does? I admit to myself that the cover looks really awesome - a black suited, menacing man shooting flames over something that looks like books. I give it a go.
Tearing through the pages, the chapters, the three sections, I finish it over a weekend and am in awe. A fireman that starts fires? Books are outlawed? I look at the small library that I've had since childhood; a shelf of about 30 books. They now look to my 12 year old eyes as books of a child. Fahrenheit 451 is the book that launched me from childhood, my first book dealing with the adult world.
I ask my mother to box up my old books and put them in the attic. I am proud to start a new library with this novel as my first edition. I carefully, lovingly, sign my name on the inside cover. Let the firemen come, I think, I am proud to be a book-reader.
I continue to read this book again and again through the years. I enroll in a college course at Penn State my freshman year, simply because this book is on the course materials. I memorized the entire poem Dover Beach because it is the selection Bradbury chose to have Montag read aloud to his wife and her friends. As the years roll by, and I age through my 20s and 30s, I noticed that fewer and fewer of the people I know read any books. Even my avid reading friends from childhood moved on to their careers, their marriages, their children. In the late 1990s a friend invited me to his house to show off a proud new purchase - a television screen the size of one of his walls. I mention how frightening this was, that he was basically mainlining Bradbury's foreshadowing. He handed me a beer and fired up Star Wars; told me to relax. I watched the movie and felt like a traitor.
The last time I read F451 was about 10 years ago - I think I was afraid that if I were to pick it up again that it would diminish in its importance to me - much like Catch-22 and The Sun Also Rises. But on this first day in May I have a day-trip to Socal for business and I bring this book with me. And I love it, all over again, as if reading it for the first time. Until Beloved came along, this was my favorite book. I remember why.
I joined 欧宝娱乐 in 2009 with low expectations; I am not a social media person. But there was something I found here that reminded me of Montag's joining the campfire of fellow readers. We may all be from different walks of life from places all around the world, but we come here often and with excitement - because we love books. They are some of the most important things to us and our lives would be ruined without them.
So to you, my fellow Goodreaders, tonight I raise a glass to each of you, and I want to say thank you thank you thank you for making my life better, for exposing me to authors I would never have known, and for reminding me that although I'll never get to all of the books I want to read in this life, I can stand on the shoulders of you giants and witness more wonders of the written word.
My mother and I are in K-mart. I've mentioned to her about this book report to be done, and so before we leave with a basket filled with clothes I know I will be embarrassed to wear, we stop by the rack of books. She selects a few pulp paperback titles, throws them into the cart.
A few days later she hands me Fahrenheit 451. "I've read those books I purchased," she says. "I think this is the best of the bunch. You should like it."
I am skeptical. When does a 12 year-old boy like anything that his mother does? I admit to myself that the cover looks really awesome - a black suited, menacing man shooting flames over something that looks like books. I give it a go.
Tearing through the pages, the chapters, the three sections, I finish it over a weekend and am in awe. A fireman that starts fires? Books are outlawed? I look at the small library that I've had since childhood; a shelf of about 30 books. They now look to my 12 year old eyes as books of a child. Fahrenheit 451 is the book that launched me from childhood, my first book dealing with the adult world.
I ask my mother to box up my old books and put them in the attic. I am proud to start a new library with this novel as my first edition. I carefully, lovingly, sign my name on the inside cover. Let the firemen come, I think, I am proud to be a book-reader.
I continue to read this book again and again through the years. I enroll in a college course at Penn State my freshman year, simply because this book is on the course materials. I memorized the entire poem Dover Beach because it is the selection Bradbury chose to have Montag read aloud to his wife and her friends. As the years roll by, and I age through my 20s and 30s, I noticed that fewer and fewer of the people I know read any books. Even my avid reading friends from childhood moved on to their careers, their marriages, their children. In the late 1990s a friend invited me to his house to show off a proud new purchase - a television screen the size of one of his walls. I mention how frightening this was, that he was basically mainlining Bradbury's foreshadowing. He handed me a beer and fired up Star Wars; told me to relax. I watched the movie and felt like a traitor.
The last time I read F451 was about 10 years ago - I think I was afraid that if I were to pick it up again that it would diminish in its importance to me - much like Catch-22 and The Sun Also Rises. But on this first day in May I have a day-trip to Socal for business and I bring this book with me. And I love it, all over again, as if reading it for the first time. Until Beloved came along, this was my favorite book. I remember why.
I joined 欧宝娱乐 in 2009 with low expectations; I am not a social media person. But there was something I found here that reminded me of Montag's joining the campfire of fellow readers. We may all be from different walks of life from places all around the world, but we come here often and with excitement - because we love books. They are some of the most important things to us and our lives would be ruined without them.
So to you, my fellow Goodreaders, tonight I raise a glass to each of you, and I want to say thank you thank you thank you for making my life better, for exposing me to authors I would never have known, and for reminding me that although I'll never get to all of the books I want to read in this life, I can stand on the shoulders of you giants and witness more wonders of the written word.
December 4, 2013
Somehow, I have gotten through life as an English major, book geek, and a science-fiction nerd without ever having read this book. I vaguely remember picking it up in high-school and not getting very far with it. It was an interesting premise, but far too depressing for my tastes at the time.
Fast-forward 15 years later. I just bought a copy the other day to register at BookCrossing for their Banned Books Month release challenge. The ALA celebrates Banned Books Week in September, so one BXer challenged us to wild release books that had at one point or another been banned in this country during the entire month. Fahrenheit 451 fits the bill -- an irony that is not lost on anyone, I trust. (Everyone knows Fahrenheit 451 is about the evils of censorship and banning books, right? The title refers to the temperature at which paper burns.)
I didn't intend to start reading it. I really didn't. Somehow it seduced me into it. I glanced at the first page and before I knew it, it was 1:00 in the morning and I was halfway through with the thing. It's really good! No wonder it's a modern classic. Montag's inner emotional and moral journey from a character who burns books gleefully and with a smile on his face to someone who is willing to risk his career, his marriage, his house, and eventually his life for the sake of books is extremely compelling. That this man, product of a culture that devalues reading and values easy, thoughtless entertainments designed to deaden the mind and prevent serious thought, could come to find literature so essential that he would kill for it...! Something about that really spoke to me.
It raises the question: why? What is it about books, about poetry, about literature that is so essential to us? There is no doubt in my mind that it is essential, if not for all individuals (although I find it hard to imagine life without books, I know there are some people who don't read for pleasure, bizarre as that seems to me), then for society. Why should that be? Books don't contain any hard-and-fast answers to all of life's questions. They might contain great philosophical Truths, but only subjectively so -- there will always be someone who will argue and disagree with whatever someone else says. In fact, as Captain Beatty, the evil fire chief, points out, no two books agree with each other. What one says, another contradicts. So what, then, is their allure? What is it that made Mildred's silly friend start to weep when Montag read the poem "Dover Beach" aloud to her? Where does the power of literature come from?
I think the reason that books are so important to our lives and to the health of our society -- of any society -- is not because they give us answers, but because they make us ask the questions. Books -- good books, the books that stay with you for years after you read them, the books that change your view of the world or your way of thinking -- aren't easy. They aren't facile. They aren't about surface; they're about depth. They are, quite literally, thought-provoking. They require complexity of thought. They require effort on the part of the reader. You get out of a book what you put into the reading of it, and therefore books satisfy in a way that other types of entertainment do not.
And they aren't mass-produced. They are individual, unique, gloriously singular. They are each an island, much-needed refuges from an increasingly homogeneous culture.
I'm glad I read Fahrenheit 451, even if the ending was rather bleak. It challenged me and made me think, stimulated me intellectually. We could all do with a bit of intellectual stimulation now and then; it makes life much more fulfilling.
Fast-forward 15 years later. I just bought a copy the other day to register at BookCrossing for their Banned Books Month release challenge. The ALA celebrates Banned Books Week in September, so one BXer challenged us to wild release books that had at one point or another been banned in this country during the entire month. Fahrenheit 451 fits the bill -- an irony that is not lost on anyone, I trust. (Everyone knows Fahrenheit 451 is about the evils of censorship and banning books, right? The title refers to the temperature at which paper burns.)
I didn't intend to start reading it. I really didn't. Somehow it seduced me into it. I glanced at the first page and before I knew it, it was 1:00 in the morning and I was halfway through with the thing. It's really good! No wonder it's a modern classic. Montag's inner emotional and moral journey from a character who burns books gleefully and with a smile on his face to someone who is willing to risk his career, his marriage, his house, and eventually his life for the sake of books is extremely compelling. That this man, product of a culture that devalues reading and values easy, thoughtless entertainments designed to deaden the mind and prevent serious thought, could come to find literature so essential that he would kill for it...! Something about that really spoke to me.
It raises the question: why? What is it about books, about poetry, about literature that is so essential to us? There is no doubt in my mind that it is essential, if not for all individuals (although I find it hard to imagine life without books, I know there are some people who don't read for pleasure, bizarre as that seems to me), then for society. Why should that be? Books don't contain any hard-and-fast answers to all of life's questions. They might contain great philosophical Truths, but only subjectively so -- there will always be someone who will argue and disagree with whatever someone else says. In fact, as Captain Beatty, the evil fire chief, points out, no two books agree with each other. What one says, another contradicts. So what, then, is their allure? What is it that made Mildred's silly friend start to weep when Montag read the poem "Dover Beach" aloud to her? Where does the power of literature come from?
I think the reason that books are so important to our lives and to the health of our society -- of any society -- is not because they give us answers, but because they make us ask the questions. Books -- good books, the books that stay with you for years after you read them, the books that change your view of the world or your way of thinking -- aren't easy. They aren't facile. They aren't about surface; they're about depth. They are, quite literally, thought-provoking. They require complexity of thought. They require effort on the part of the reader. You get out of a book what you put into the reading of it, and therefore books satisfy in a way that other types of entertainment do not.
And they aren't mass-produced. They are individual, unique, gloriously singular. They are each an island, much-needed refuges from an increasingly homogeneous culture.
I'm glad I read Fahrenheit 451, even if the ending was rather bleak. It challenged me and made me think, stimulated me intellectually. We could all do with a bit of intellectual stimulation now and then; it makes life much more fulfilling.
June 16, 2022
"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies."That is a very unpleasant metaphor, and Fahrenheit 451 is an unpleasant book. It feels like it was written by a teenager, and if I were his teacher I'd give it a B- and not let my daughter date the weird little kid who wrote it.
Its protagonist, Montag, lacks any character; he changes as Bradbury's shitty story requires him to, from the dumbest kid in the world (his cousin once offered to pay him a dime to fill a sieve with sand and he sat there for ages crying and dumping sand into it - I understand that's a metaphor, but it's a metaphor for a dipshit) to a mastermind (telling Faber how to throw the Hound off his scent). You ever see film of someone skipping a pebble in reverse? Me neither, but I bet it's like this: plop plop skip skip wtf?
Each other character exists solely to advance the plot. There's the hot underage Manic Pixie Dream Girl - "her face fragile milk crystal" - who teaches him how to smell dandelions (and whose beauty is harped on endlessly) and then disappears off-stage; Faber, who's all of a sudden like best friends and then disappears off-stage; the bonfire circle of retired professors who happen to be right there when he stumbles out of a river looking for them.
There's his wife - "thin as a praying mantis from dieting, and her flesh like white bacon." He seems to loathe her, and all real women.
"Millie? Does the White Clown love you?"There's a real conservative streak to this book. It looks backwards, as conservatives do. Bradbury blames his world's disgust with books on "minorities," what we nowadays call "special interest groups":
No answer.
"Millie, does - " He licked his lips. "Does your 'family' [TV entertainment] love you, love you very much, love you with all their heart and soul, Millie?"
He felt her blinking slowly at the back of his neck. "Why'd you ask a silly question like that?"
"Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it."These are the only specific examples given during Captain Beatty's central speech about why literature has been banned.
There are some nice moments here. A disturbed and immature but intelligent kid flailing around will hit a few marks. The central idea? No, no props for that; book-burning was invented centuries ago. But the moment when the TV instructs all citizens to open their doors and look for Montag, that's nice. And the suicidal Captain Beatty is the book's only living character, although his speech is littered with what I swear are just random quotes. I even like the idea of a circle of book-readers, each responsible for remembering a certain book - but it's dealt with so lamely here. "We've invented ways for you to remember everything you've ever read, so it's no problem." Well, in that case I got like half the Canon, y'all can go home. Losers. Wouldn't it be cooler if these people had to work for it?
Point is, those little flashes of competence are so overwhelmed by terrible philosophy and so ill-sketched themselves that I have no idea how this book has escaped the bonfire of apathy, the worst and most blameless fire of all. It's just a lame, lame book.
I wouldn't burn this or any book. But I'll do worse: I'll forget all about it.
April 28, 2020
鈥淭here must be something in books, something we can鈥檛 imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don鈥檛 stay for nothing.鈥�
The burning of books is such an effective tool for controlling the population, so the message of Ray Bradbury鈥檚 Fahrenheit 451 is scarily real. If society鈥檚 wisdom could be taken away, then so could their freedom. If knowledge was burnt, then the people would be left in a complete state of utter innocent ignorance. There would be no room for free thought, that way they could be told anything about history and themselves. If all books were burnt, then they are just sheep to be led into a future dictated by the government. To make it worse the men who do it enjoy it.
Books have become illegal; thus, owning them is a form of disobedience against the state and a violation of the law. The books are burnt by a special group of firefighters, yes firefighters, which hunt readers mercilessly. When they find them, they burn their beloved collection and leave them to die. One woman burns with her books by her own choosing rather than submit to ignorance. The firefighters don鈥檛 know exactly why they do it, they rarely question it, they just do it unflinchingly because that is what they are told to do. And they cannot understand why somebody would fight to the death to defend the written word.
Guy Montag is one such firefighter. He lives a mundane life with an equally mundane partner. He鈥檚 miserable. He carries out the book burnings, like the others, without a second thought until one day an innocent young girl changes his life forever. She is his next-door neighbour and she is a closet book reader; she asks him a series of questions that makes him realise how stupid and worthless his existence is. He takes solace in a collection of books he has stolen whilst on the job, a symbol that he and the world could one day be free. The knowledge he gains changes his perception of the world forever.
Books have fallen out of favour as other mediums have taken priority over them. People have become hostile to books because they feel inferior when faced with an educated reader; thus, if they are removed forever everyone will be the same and minorities will be removed. Individuality would die. Consequently, when Guy begins reading, he does not know what to do anymore; he has been conditioned to act in a certain way, and when liberty presents itself, he is reluctant and confused by his new knowledge. He is a reluctant hero but a hero, nonetheless. He has stolen one of the last surviving copies of the Bible but doesn鈥檛 know what it is. However, a professor of the bygone age does and what comes after is one of the most powerful and symbolic endings I鈥檝e ever read in science-fiction.
This really is required reading for anyone who is serious about science fiction and dystopian fiction because it really is one of the best in both genres.
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The burning of books is such an effective tool for controlling the population, so the message of Ray Bradbury鈥檚 Fahrenheit 451 is scarily real. If society鈥檚 wisdom could be taken away, then so could their freedom. If knowledge was burnt, then the people would be left in a complete state of utter innocent ignorance. There would be no room for free thought, that way they could be told anything about history and themselves. If all books were burnt, then they are just sheep to be led into a future dictated by the government. To make it worse the men who do it enjoy it.
Books have become illegal; thus, owning them is a form of disobedience against the state and a violation of the law. The books are burnt by a special group of firefighters, yes firefighters, which hunt readers mercilessly. When they find them, they burn their beloved collection and leave them to die. One woman burns with her books by her own choosing rather than submit to ignorance. The firefighters don鈥檛 know exactly why they do it, they rarely question it, they just do it unflinchingly because that is what they are told to do. And they cannot understand why somebody would fight to the death to defend the written word.
Guy Montag is one such firefighter. He lives a mundane life with an equally mundane partner. He鈥檚 miserable. He carries out the book burnings, like the others, without a second thought until one day an innocent young girl changes his life forever. She is his next-door neighbour and she is a closet book reader; she asks him a series of questions that makes him realise how stupid and worthless his existence is. He takes solace in a collection of books he has stolen whilst on the job, a symbol that he and the world could one day be free. The knowledge he gains changes his perception of the world forever.
Books have fallen out of favour as other mediums have taken priority over them. People have become hostile to books because they feel inferior when faced with an educated reader; thus, if they are removed forever everyone will be the same and minorities will be removed. Individuality would die. Consequently, when Guy begins reading, he does not know what to do anymore; he has been conditioned to act in a certain way, and when liberty presents itself, he is reluctant and confused by his new knowledge. He is a reluctant hero but a hero, nonetheless. He has stolen one of the last surviving copies of the Bible but doesn鈥檛 know what it is. However, a professor of the bygone age does and what comes after is one of the most powerful and symbolic endings I鈥檝e ever read in science-fiction.
This really is required reading for anyone who is serious about science fiction and dystopian fiction because it really is one of the best in both genres.
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December 28, 2007
Few appreciate irony as much as I do, so understand that I understand this review. The message of this book is decent: knowledge should not be censored. However, the rest of the book is utter shit. I found myself actually screaming at several points as Bradbury spent minutes and dozens of metaphors and allusions referring to one insignificant detail of the plot. It is too damn flowery to be understandable by anyone! In other words, an English teacher's dream. In addition, the story was about the message not the story in and of itself. Those of you who know me understand that this is that I detest most about classics, tied with how everyone reveres them without reading them.
The Coda and Afterword just add to the confuse making me confused on whether Bradbury is a very hateful man or just a hypocrite. The main plot of the novel itself is that the majority rule canceled out intellectualism while in the Coda (maybe Afterword, I don't remember which was which) Bradbury blasts minorities (all, including racial, religious, etc.) for creating an overly sensitive society. Oddly enough, his heroes are the minority. Ha. Furthermore, the Coda is a hefty "Fuck you" to anyone that wants to critique his work in any way not positive. Therefore, I feel obliged to respond in turn: "Fuck you, Ray Bradbury. Your writing style is shit and I won't force it on my worst enemy." Harsh, I know, but true. If you do need to read this book, I suggest a Cliff Notes version as long as you can appreciate that irony.
The Coda and Afterword just add to the confuse making me confused on whether Bradbury is a very hateful man or just a hypocrite. The main plot of the novel itself is that the majority rule canceled out intellectualism while in the Coda (maybe Afterword, I don't remember which was which) Bradbury blasts minorities (all, including racial, religious, etc.) for creating an overly sensitive society. Oddly enough, his heroes are the minority. Ha. Furthermore, the Coda is a hefty "Fuck you" to anyone that wants to critique his work in any way not positive. Therefore, I feel obliged to respond in turn: "Fuck you, Ray Bradbury. Your writing style is shit and I won't force it on my worst enemy." Harsh, I know, but true. If you do need to read this book, I suggest a Cliff Notes version as long as you can appreciate that irony.
June 24, 2019
You can check out thousands of better reviews here and across the internet, but here is all you really need to know...
This is one of the best books ever written. This is one of my favorite books of all time. ALL TIME. This is the third time I've read it. I audiobooked it this time.
Every line of Fahrenheit 451 is beautifully written. Poetic. Metaphoric. Transcendent. Awesome. The beginning, middle, and ending... all amazing.
If you consider yourself a fan of science fiction or dystopian novels or classic literature or banned books or books high-schoolers read or thought-provoking books, and you have not read this book... wow... just stop whatever you are doing right now, which is reading this review, I guess...
Stop reading this review. Put down your laptop, your phone, your iPad, your mouse and keyboard, your floppy disk drive, your PlayStation 4, your Smart TV remote, whatever. Just stop. Grab your car keys, hop on a bus, walk... run to your nearest bookstore. Dash frantically through the aisles, locate the fiction section, maybe science fiction. Maybe just ask someone who works there. Find a copy of this book. It's written by Ray Bradbury, but my God, if you don't know that by now...
Demand a copy of this book from the bookstore, happily open up your purse or wallet and pay whatever price they make you pay for a copy of this book. Don't ask any questions. Don't have them put it in a bag for you. Don't get a copy of your receipt. Just hand over the money and get the hell out of there. Dump all of your spare change you've collected onto the counter. Tap into your 401k if you need to.
Rush home and instantly sit down in your easy chair or whatever it is you like to sit, lay, or stand on while reading. The bathtub perhaps. A recliner. A porch swing. It really doesn't matter. Pour a glass of wine or grab a beer. Pour a glass of wine AND grab a beer. Take two shots of whiskey then pour a glass of wine and grab THREE beers.
Then, in one sitting just plow the hell right through this book. Just breathe it all in like the cool, salty ocean air. Let it sink down deep into the depths of who you are as a person living as a human being in the world right here on Earth. Let it just smack you right in the mouth with how awesome it is. Let it punch you right in the jaw with how mind-blowing it is. Let it leave you lying on the floor with your mouth wide open trying to figure out what in God's name just happened to you. Let it elevate itself high above pretty much every other book you've ever read, maybe all the way to the top of that damned prestigious mountain, and let it hoist its flag into the soil of your mind and proclaim to every other book ever written that it is king of literature. Other books can bow down and bring burnt offerings to it. It shall reign forevermore.
Don't wait to get it from the library. Don't even think about ordering it on Amazon, and I don't even give a damn if you have Prime and woohoo look at me I can get it shipped in two days. One day shipping if I pay a few bucks! No. Run. Get a physical copy of the book. Don't settle for reading text on your Kindle or whatever it is you digitize books into. Get up now. I don't care if it's late and the bookstore is closed. Go wait outside like it's Black Freaking Friday. I don't care if you're the only one out there all night. Are you a reader or not? Do you care about books? How have you not read this yet? What's the matter with you? Why are you still reading this? Why haven't you left yet? God...
I love Fahrenheit 451. And I love you enough to demand that you read it. Reread it. Yes! This is wonderful! This is going to be one of the best days of your life. Maybe the best day of your life! Are you ready? Can you handle it?
Have fun.
This is one of the best books ever written. This is one of my favorite books of all time. ALL TIME. This is the third time I've read it. I audiobooked it this time.
Every line of Fahrenheit 451 is beautifully written. Poetic. Metaphoric. Transcendent. Awesome. The beginning, middle, and ending... all amazing.
If you consider yourself a fan of science fiction or dystopian novels or classic literature or banned books or books high-schoolers read or thought-provoking books, and you have not read this book... wow... just stop whatever you are doing right now, which is reading this review, I guess...
Stop reading this review. Put down your laptop, your phone, your iPad, your mouse and keyboard, your floppy disk drive, your PlayStation 4, your Smart TV remote, whatever. Just stop. Grab your car keys, hop on a bus, walk... run to your nearest bookstore. Dash frantically through the aisles, locate the fiction section, maybe science fiction. Maybe just ask someone who works there. Find a copy of this book. It's written by Ray Bradbury, but my God, if you don't know that by now...
Demand a copy of this book from the bookstore, happily open up your purse or wallet and pay whatever price they make you pay for a copy of this book. Don't ask any questions. Don't have them put it in a bag for you. Don't get a copy of your receipt. Just hand over the money and get the hell out of there. Dump all of your spare change you've collected onto the counter. Tap into your 401k if you need to.
Rush home and instantly sit down in your easy chair or whatever it is you like to sit, lay, or stand on while reading. The bathtub perhaps. A recliner. A porch swing. It really doesn't matter. Pour a glass of wine or grab a beer. Pour a glass of wine AND grab a beer. Take two shots of whiskey then pour a glass of wine and grab THREE beers.
Then, in one sitting just plow the hell right through this book. Just breathe it all in like the cool, salty ocean air. Let it sink down deep into the depths of who you are as a person living as a human being in the world right here on Earth. Let it just smack you right in the mouth with how awesome it is. Let it punch you right in the jaw with how mind-blowing it is. Let it leave you lying on the floor with your mouth wide open trying to figure out what in God's name just happened to you. Let it elevate itself high above pretty much every other book you've ever read, maybe all the way to the top of that damned prestigious mountain, and let it hoist its flag into the soil of your mind and proclaim to every other book ever written that it is king of literature. Other books can bow down and bring burnt offerings to it. It shall reign forevermore.
Don't wait to get it from the library. Don't even think about ordering it on Amazon, and I don't even give a damn if you have Prime and woohoo look at me I can get it shipped in two days. One day shipping if I pay a few bucks! No. Run. Get a physical copy of the book. Don't settle for reading text on your Kindle or whatever it is you digitize books into. Get up now. I don't care if it's late and the bookstore is closed. Go wait outside like it's Black Freaking Friday. I don't care if you're the only one out there all night. Are you a reader or not? Do you care about books? How have you not read this yet? What's the matter with you? Why are you still reading this? Why haven't you left yet? God...
I love Fahrenheit 451. And I love you enough to demand that you read it. Reread it. Yes! This is wonderful! This is going to be one of the best days of your life. Maybe the best day of your life! Are you ready? Can you handle it?
Have fun.
January 12, 2013
It鈥檚 easy to see why 鈥楩arenheit 451鈥� is a cult classic, beloved by the majority of bookworms. Oh, it validates us, doesn鈥檛 it? Here is a future world where books are banned, and look at this; it has gone to the dogs. The saddest of all post-apocalyptic worlds, the bleakest dystopia, what a nightmare 鈥� NO BOOKS!
The good are those who read, the bad are those who watch the TV. Yes, this is what we like to read to make us feel all warm inside. And because of that we are seemingly willing to forgive Bradbury for a lot of things: really poor world-building skills, lacklustre characterisation, inconsistencies.
Oh, and sexism. The women in the books are generally brainwashed bimbos, except of course for the wonder-child Clarisse from the beginning of the book, who is a representation of a very annoying archetype as well.
And you would think that, since the book is mostly an endless roll call of all the authors and books that need to be salvaged from the fire, at least ONE female author would get a mention. Nope. Zero. They can all burn for all that Bradbury cares. After all, the secret gang dedicated to preserving the world literary heritage is made up entirely of men. Now, this to me does look like a very sad world indeed.
Go and read Farenheit 451. It鈥檚 not a novel in its fully developed sense, more of an allegory, a hyperbole and Bradbury occasionally produces sentences of startling beauty. The problem with this book is the same problem there is with a world without books 鈥� it鈥檚 somewhat flat, somewhat numb.
The good are those who read, the bad are those who watch the TV. Yes, this is what we like to read to make us feel all warm inside. And because of that we are seemingly willing to forgive Bradbury for a lot of things: really poor world-building skills, lacklustre characterisation, inconsistencies.
Oh, and sexism. The women in the books are generally brainwashed bimbos, except of course for the wonder-child Clarisse from the beginning of the book, who is a representation of a very annoying archetype as well.
And you would think that, since the book is mostly an endless roll call of all the authors and books that need to be salvaged from the fire, at least ONE female author would get a mention. Nope. Zero. They can all burn for all that Bradbury cares. After all, the secret gang dedicated to preserving the world literary heritage is made up entirely of men. Now, this to me does look like a very sad world indeed.
Go and read Farenheit 451. It鈥檚 not a novel in its fully developed sense, more of an allegory, a hyperbole and Bradbury occasionally produces sentences of startling beauty. The problem with this book is the same problem there is with a world without books 鈥� it鈥檚 somewhat flat, somewhat numb.
September 4, 2023
Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a novel that transcends it's dystopian theme and delivers its cautionary message in a timeless fashion, what made this story compelling in 1953 remains provocative.
It is a strident call to arms, a warning siren of darkness always on the perimeter.
Critics have tried to make more of this, and certainly it is an archetypal work, but I think its simplicity is its great strength - it is fundamentally about book burning, literally and metaphorically. A powerful allegory that also works well as a prima facie argument against censorship and a good science fiction novel all by itself.
Bradbury has stated that the novel is not about censorship, but a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature, which leads to a perception of knowledge as being composed of factoids, partial information devoid of context - and I can see that (and in an age of Vine and Twitter this message is all too relevant), but for me the image of the ironic fireman burning books is the endearing story.
This is a book that everyone should read at least once.
**** 2021 reread -
This could be an annual reread, I was again captivated by Bradbury's language and vision.
Akin to Orwell's 1984 in its cautionary dystopia, this is more fantastic and serves best as allegory for complacency, conformism and the deterioration of critical thought. A reader of both classics may also draw a comparison between 1984's O'Brien and 451's Beatty. Both antagonists, like Milton's Satan, recognize the evil of their design but move forward regardless and with a recklessness born of misanthropy.
One symbol that was ubiquitous in the novel was that of hands. Montag blames his hands for beginning his treason by taking books and later it is his hands that commits the murders, and still later, by contrast, Guy thinks of hands as building and creating rather than burning and destroying.
*** 2023 reread -
Still an excellent book, timeless in its message, and as relevant as ever.
I noticed in my reread of Childhood's End and Foundation, all three books published within years of each other, and significantly only a few years removed from battling global fascism, that all three of these SF masterpieces address a dehumanizing effect of authority and technology.
This time I paid close attention to Montag's relationships with the other characters. From his wife, to Clarisse, to Beatty, and then to Faber and the disenfranchised hobos, Montag is our guide for the dystopia he lives through as well as the scenes of hope and for the final denouement.
Bradbury's prose is a treasure.
It is a strident call to arms, a warning siren of darkness always on the perimeter.
Critics have tried to make more of this, and certainly it is an archetypal work, but I think its simplicity is its great strength - it is fundamentally about book burning, literally and metaphorically. A powerful allegory that also works well as a prima facie argument against censorship and a good science fiction novel all by itself.
Bradbury has stated that the novel is not about censorship, but a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature, which leads to a perception of knowledge as being composed of factoids, partial information devoid of context - and I can see that (and in an age of Vine and Twitter this message is all too relevant), but for me the image of the ironic fireman burning books is the endearing story.
This is a book that everyone should read at least once.
**** 2021 reread -
This could be an annual reread, I was again captivated by Bradbury's language and vision.
Akin to Orwell's 1984 in its cautionary dystopia, this is more fantastic and serves best as allegory for complacency, conformism and the deterioration of critical thought. A reader of both classics may also draw a comparison between 1984's O'Brien and 451's Beatty. Both antagonists, like Milton's Satan, recognize the evil of their design but move forward regardless and with a recklessness born of misanthropy.
One symbol that was ubiquitous in the novel was that of hands. Montag blames his hands for beginning his treason by taking books and later it is his hands that commits the murders, and still later, by contrast, Guy thinks of hands as building and creating rather than burning and destroying.
*** 2023 reread -
Still an excellent book, timeless in its message, and as relevant as ever.
I noticed in my reread of Childhood's End and Foundation, all three books published within years of each other, and significantly only a few years removed from battling global fascism, that all three of these SF masterpieces address a dehumanizing effect of authority and technology.
This time I paid close attention to Montag's relationships with the other characters. From his wife, to Clarisse, to Beatty, and then to Faber and the disenfranchised hobos, Montag is our guide for the dystopia he lives through as well as the scenes of hope and for the final denouement.
Bradbury's prose is a treasure.
August 12, 2024
鈥淒o you notice how people hurt each other nowadays?鈥�
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Who is one of my favorite authors? Neil Gaiman.
When I opened Fahrenheit 451, who should write the introduction but none other than Neil Gaiman. So how can I not like this book?
Just to give some historical context, Fahrenheit 451 is a fantasy book written in 1953. This was before cell phones, color television, and of course the internet. The story is premised on what if firemen started fires instead of putting them out. What if firemen burned books?
Fahrenheit 451 is about censorship, but it is much more than that. Bradbury was writing about the future which is now our present. It is almost eerie to see how closely he predicted the future. The book even mentions 2022!
There are also a lot of great quotes in Fahrenheit 451, and this book is especially chilling in the modern era of book banning.
鈥淎nd if you look鈥濃€攕he nodded at the sky鈥斺€渢here鈥檚 a man in the moon.鈥� He hadn鈥檛 looked for a long time.
When was the last time that you looked at the moon?
2025 Reading Schedule
Jan A Town Like Alice
Feb Birdsong
Mar Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Berniere
Apr War and Peace
May The Woman in White
Jun Atonement
Jul The Shadow of the Wind
Aug Jude the Obscure
Sep Ulysses
Oct Vanity Fair
Nov A Fine Balance
Dec Germinal
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- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Who is one of my favorite authors? Neil Gaiman.
When I opened Fahrenheit 451, who should write the introduction but none other than Neil Gaiman. So how can I not like this book?
Just to give some historical context, Fahrenheit 451 is a fantasy book written in 1953. This was before cell phones, color television, and of course the internet. The story is premised on what if firemen started fires instead of putting them out. What if firemen burned books?
Fahrenheit 451 is about censorship, but it is much more than that. Bradbury was writing about the future which is now our present. It is almost eerie to see how closely he predicted the future. The book even mentions 2022!
There are also a lot of great quotes in Fahrenheit 451, and this book is especially chilling in the modern era of book banning.
鈥淎nd if you look鈥濃€攕he nodded at the sky鈥斺€渢here鈥檚 a man in the moon.鈥� He hadn鈥檛 looked for a long time.
When was the last time that you looked at the moon?
2025 Reading Schedule
Jan A Town Like Alice
Feb Birdsong
Mar Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Berniere
Apr War and Peace
May The Woman in White
Jun Atonement
Jul The Shadow of the Wind
Aug Jude the Obscure
Sep Ulysses
Oct Vanity Fair
Nov A Fine Balance
Dec Germinal
Connect With Me!
December 26, 2022
Thermal utilization is an all time burner
It麓s more about the language than the plot
Bradbury has such a unique writing style, everything comes so smoothly and elaborately, full of metaphors and lively language. This, his most famous one, is a softer alternative to Orwell and Huxley, a more philosophical approach to the topic of censorship. Certainly one of the great works of the 20th century, if not of all time, reducing the story to some essential elements that
Can be seen in Brave new world and 1984 too
A love story, an awakening antagonist, mass dumbing down by passive media consumption, substance abuse, propaganda, and a little grain of hope for a better tomorrow. It麓s closer to Brave new world than to 1984 because the mind penetration aspect of brainwashing is bigger than pure death squad brutality. It麓s also simply Bradburys style to avoid big action scenes and focus on character development, deeper meaning, and the language itself to create a picture of, well, freaking reality in very many places.
That麓s by far not his top performance
I understand why his other, as good and even better, works aren麓t as appreciated as this short one. Bradbury is at his best when he is writing short story collections under a main theme, be it The Martian chronicles
/book/show/7...
or The Illustrated Man
/book/show/2...
One could go and start searching for all the interconnections between the stories and how perfectly they fit together, but the problem of having to begin again and again and getting out of reading flow is one of the main reasons why short stories aren麓t selling so great. Maybe it was popular those days, I don麓t know, but in the case of The Martian Chronicles, one of the first space opera novels could have been possible, the same with The Illustrated Man. It麓s sadly one of the worst cases of unused serial production potential.
He was such a great writer and I don麓t get why he didn麓t rewrite all the material he had with those short stories into one or more longer novels. It somehow feels to me as if he had a tendency to avoid longer novels, but just imagine how it would have been if he had written them or even a series instead of all of those unique short stories. Boy, he would have owned them all. I mean, Stephen King names him and Lovecraft as main inspirations and the more often I read something from one of these titans, the more I have to agree on how my beloved master of horror came to his writing style.
Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique:
It麓s more about the language than the plot
Bradbury has such a unique writing style, everything comes so smoothly and elaborately, full of metaphors and lively language. This, his most famous one, is a softer alternative to Orwell and Huxley, a more philosophical approach to the topic of censorship. Certainly one of the great works of the 20th century, if not of all time, reducing the story to some essential elements that
Can be seen in Brave new world and 1984 too
A love story, an awakening antagonist, mass dumbing down by passive media consumption, substance abuse, propaganda, and a little grain of hope for a better tomorrow. It麓s closer to Brave new world than to 1984 because the mind penetration aspect of brainwashing is bigger than pure death squad brutality. It麓s also simply Bradburys style to avoid big action scenes and focus on character development, deeper meaning, and the language itself to create a picture of, well, freaking reality in very many places.
That麓s by far not his top performance
I understand why his other, as good and even better, works aren麓t as appreciated as this short one. Bradbury is at his best when he is writing short story collections under a main theme, be it The Martian chronicles
/book/show/7...
or The Illustrated Man
/book/show/2...
One could go and start searching for all the interconnections between the stories and how perfectly they fit together, but the problem of having to begin again and again and getting out of reading flow is one of the main reasons why short stories aren麓t selling so great. Maybe it was popular those days, I don麓t know, but in the case of The Martian Chronicles, one of the first space opera novels could have been possible, the same with The Illustrated Man. It麓s sadly one of the worst cases of unused serial production potential.
He was such a great writer and I don麓t get why he didn麓t rewrite all the material he had with those short stories into one or more longer novels. It somehow feels to me as if he had a tendency to avoid longer novels, but just imagine how it would have been if he had written them or even a series instead of all of those unique short stories. Boy, he would have owned them all. I mean, Stephen King names him and Lovecraft as main inspirations and the more often I read something from one of these titans, the more I have to agree on how my beloved master of horror came to his writing style.
Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique:
September 24, 2020
"We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain & black loam." (111)
What outstanding prose--prophetic, which is by far the most rare and inspiring of attributes a work of literature can ever possess. & Ray "I Don't Talk Things, Sir. I Talk The Meaning Of Things" Bradbury is here at his absolute best. I cannot decide whether this or "Martian Chronicles" is my favorite... they are definitely my favorite of his, the best possible possibly in ANY sci-fi adventure.
This is "The Giver" for adults. Here, another example of overpraised books that shockingly do live up to the hype. It's a resplendent petition for life, beauty, & literature; an AMEN for The Book's very core of existence... THE BOOK that actually worships other BOOKS (like The Bible does with God). Personal events and not the battlefields of Tolkien-sized scope (I mean small occurrences such as breakdowns, unpleasant jobs, below-par relationships...) tightens the razor-sharp string of terror; a severe lack of details is a tenacious and masterful way to portray this post-apocalyptic nightmare in the most disconcerting way. (If you're a lover of books, this seems like some Dantean form of poetic retribution!)
"451" is an example of when planets aligned just right and gave the writer a light for him to share. This, a writer's "capacity for collecting metaphors" is absolutely enthralling. I am wholly amazed!
A PLUS: read the edition with the 3 introductions by the inspiring Bradbury (there are 451 printings or so of this novel after all) & save a couple bucks in a creative writing class. His writing tips are genuinely far-out!
What outstanding prose--prophetic, which is by far the most rare and inspiring of attributes a work of literature can ever possess. & Ray "I Don't Talk Things, Sir. I Talk The Meaning Of Things" Bradbury is here at his absolute best. I cannot decide whether this or "Martian Chronicles" is my favorite... they are definitely my favorite of his, the best possible possibly in ANY sci-fi adventure.
This is "The Giver" for adults. Here, another example of overpraised books that shockingly do live up to the hype. It's a resplendent petition for life, beauty, & literature; an AMEN for The Book's very core of existence... THE BOOK that actually worships other BOOKS (like The Bible does with God). Personal events and not the battlefields of Tolkien-sized scope (I mean small occurrences such as breakdowns, unpleasant jobs, below-par relationships...) tightens the razor-sharp string of terror; a severe lack of details is a tenacious and masterful way to portray this post-apocalyptic nightmare in the most disconcerting way. (If you're a lover of books, this seems like some Dantean form of poetic retribution!)
"451" is an example of when planets aligned just right and gave the writer a light for him to share. This, a writer's "capacity for collecting metaphors" is absolutely enthralling. I am wholly amazed!
A PLUS: read the edition with the 3 introductions by the inspiring Bradbury (there are 451 printings or so of this novel after all) & save a couple bucks in a creative writing class. His writing tips are genuinely far-out!
March 21, 2021
"丕賱兀賮賰丕乇 賱賷賴丕 兀噩賳丨丞 賲丕丨丿卮 賷賯丿乇 賷賲賳毓賴丕 鬲賵氐賱 賱賱賳丕爻"
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廿匕丕 賰賳鬲 賯丿 卮丕賴丿鬲 丕賱賰鬲亘 鬲丨鬲乇賯 賮賷 賮賷賱賲 丕賱毓亘賯乇賷 賷賵爻賮 卮丕賴賷賳
賵賵賯毓鬲 賮賷 睾乇丕賲 丕賱賮賷賱賲 賵丕賱賲卮賴丿
賮乇亘賲丕 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賷賰賵賳 賱賰
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毓賳丿賲丕 鬲氐亘丨 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱賰鬲亘 噩乇賷賲丞
賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賷胤乇丨 乇丕賷 亘乇丕丿亘賵乇賷 兀爻賵兀 爻賷賳丕乇賷賵 賱毓卮丕賯 丕賱賰鬲亘
賲丕匕丕 賱賵 賰賳丕 賳毓賷卮 賮賷 毓丕賱賲 鬲禺賱氐 賳賴丕卅賷丕賸 賲賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 賵噩乇賲 賲賳 賷丨賲賱賴丕 兀賵 賷賳賯賱賴丕 兀賵 賷丨鬲賮馗 亘賴丕责
賲賵賳鬲丕噩 賴賵 亘胤賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賷毓賲賱 賰乇噩賱 丨乇賷賯
賵賲賴賲鬲賴 賱賷爻鬲 廿胤賮丕亍 丕賱丨乇丕卅賯 賰賲丕 賯丿 鬲馗賳 亘賱 廿卮毓丕賱賴丕
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賵賯亘毓丕鬲 乇噩丕賱 丕賱丨乇賷賯 鬲丨賲賱 丕賱乇賯賲 451 賵賲賳賴丕 廿爻鬲賲丿鬲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 毓賳賵丕賳賴丕
賷氐丨賵 賲賵賳鬲丕噩 賲賳 丕賱賳賵賲 貙 賷賳馗乇 廿賱賶 夭賵噩鬲賴 貙 鬲乇賯丿 噩賵丕乇賴 賰噩爻丿 賮賷 賯亘乇
賱丕 賷卮毓乇 亘卮賷亍
乇亘賲丕 亘毓囟 丕賱兀爻賶 貙 丕賱賱丕賲亘丕賱丕丞 貙 賵賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賲賱賱 賵丕賱丕禺鬲賳丕賯
賷禺乇噩 賱爻丕賳賴 賱賵丨卮 丕賱賱廿囟胤乇丕亘 丕賱賳賮爻賷 丕賱匕賷 賷賳賴卮賴賲丕
鬲亘鬲賱毓 丕賱夭賵噩丞 賯乇氐丕賸 貙貙 鬲卮丕賴丿 丕賱鬲賱賮丕夭
爻鬲賯賵賲 賰丕賱毓丕丿丞 亘賲丨丕賵賱丞 廿賳鬲丨丕乇 噩丿賷丿丞
賷賲囟賷 賲賵賳鬲丕噩 廿賱賶 毓賲賱賴
賲賵賳鬲丕噩 賷毓賲賱 賮賷 丕賱賲丐爻爻丞 丕賱丨賰賵賲賷丞 丕賱賰亘乇賶 賱亘賱丿 卮賲賵賱賷(兀賷 鬲丨鬲 賳馗丕賲 爻賷丕爻賷 賷丨鬲賰乇 賮賷賴 丨夭亘 賵丕丨丿 賰丕賲賱 丕賱爻賱胤丞 賵賱丕 賷爻賲丨 亘馗賴賵乇 賲毓丕乇囟丞)賭
锟斤拷賴匕丕 丕賱丨夭亘 賷賰乇爻 賰賱 廿賲賰丕賳丕鬲賴 賮賷 賲丨丕乇亘丞 丕賱賰賱賲丞 丕賱賲賰鬲賵亘丞
賷賮鬲卮 毓賳賴丕 亘卮賴賵丞 賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱
賵賱丕 賲丕賳毓 兀亘丿丕賸 賷丕 賲賵賳鬲丕噩 賲賳 丨乇賯 丕賱賲賰丕賳 丕賱匕賷 賷丨賵賷 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 廿賳 廿爻鬲賱夭賲 丕賱兀賲乇 兀賵 禺乇噩鬲 丕賱兀賲賵乇 毓賳 丕賱爻賷胤乇丞
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賱丕鬲賳爻
賴匕賴 乇賵丕賷丞 禺賷丕賱 毓賱賲賷
賴賳丕賰 賰賱丕亘 廿賱賰鬲乇賵賳賷丞 貙貙 賵丌賱丕鬲 賳丕胤賯丞
賵賰亘爻丕鬲 丕賱夭乇 賴賳丕 賱丕 賳鬲賳賴賷
賵毓丕賱賲 丕賱鬲賱賮丕夭 賷丨鬲賱 賰賱 丕賱賵賯鬲 賲丕 鬲亘賯賶 賲賳 丕賱毓賯賵賱
賮兀賷 丨賰賲 卮賲賵賱賷 賰丕賱匕賷 賯丿 鬲乇丕賴 賮賷 乇賵丕賷丞 兀禺乇賶 賰乇丕卅毓丞 噩賵乇噩 丕賵乇賵賷賱 1984
賵賮賷 毓丕賱賲賳丕 丕賱丨賯賷賯賷 鬲毓賷卮 亘毓囟 賲卮丕賴丿賴 賰賱 賷賵賲
賴匕丕 丕賱賳賵毓 賲賳 丕賱丨賰賲 賷賴丿賮 廿賱賶 丕賱爻賷胤乇丞 毓賱賶 丕賱毓賯賵賱
睾爻賷賱 丕賱兀丿賲睾丞
賵丨卮賵賴丕 亘賲毓賱亘丕鬲 噩丕賴夭丞 鬲卮毓乇 賲賳 賷鬲賱賯丕賴丕 亘兀賳賴 匕賰賷 賵賲孬賯賮
亘賷賳賲丕 賴賵 賮賷 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 賲噩乇丿 鬲乇爻 賮賷 丌賱丞 賰亘乇賶 鬲毓賲賱 賱賲氐賱丨鬲賴丕 兀賵賱丕賸 賵丕禺乇丕賸
兀馗賳賳賷 賲賳 賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱賲禺丕亘賷賱
賵賴賷 賰賱賲丞 賵乇丿鬲 毓賱賶 賱爻丕賳 兀丨丿 夭賲賱丕亍 賲賵賳鬲丕噩 毓賳 毓噩賵夭 兀亘鬲 兀賳 鬲鬲乇賰 賰鬲亘賴丕 賵賮囟賱鬲 丕賱丕丨鬲乇丕賯 賲毓賴丕
賵賲賵賳鬲丕噩 賷鬲毓賱賲
賷賯丕亘賱 賲賳 賷丨丿孬 卮賯丕賸 賮賷 毓賯賱賴
賷丨丕賵賱 賲賳賴 胤乇丨 丕賱兀爻卅賱丞
賲丕 丕賱丿丕毓賷 賱丕睾鬲賷丕賱 丕賱賰鬲亘 亘賴匕賴 丕賱胤乇賷賯丞
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賷丨丕賵賱 兀賳 賷噩丿 噩賵丕亘丕賸 賵賷亘丿兀 賮賷 爻乇賯丞 賵賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱賰鬲亘 亘賳賮爻賴
賷賯丕亘賱 丕賱孬賵丕乇
賵賴賲 兀賳丕爻 賷毓賷卮賵賳 毓賱賶 兀胤乇丕賮 賴匕丕 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱賲噩賳賵賳
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毓賳丿賲丕 鬲氐亘丨 兀賳鬲 賰鬲丕亘丕賸
鬲氐賵乇 兀賳 鬲賰賵賳 賲賴賲鬲賰 賮賷 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賴賷 丕賱丨賮丕馗 毓賱賶 鬲乇丕孬 丕賱毓丕賱賲
孬賯丕賮鬲赖
鬲禺賷賱 賳賮爻賰 賰鬲丕亘丕賸 賷賲卮賷 賵賷鬲賳賮爻
賴丐賱丕亍 賴賲 丕賱孬賵丕乇
賵丕丨丿 賲賳賴賲 賴賵 賲丕賰亘孬
賷丨賮馗賴丕 丨鬲賷 賷氐賷乇 賴賵 丕賱賲爻乇丨賷丞 賳賮爻賴丕
丕賱孬丕賳賷 賮丕賵爻鬲
鬲睾賱睾賱鬲 亘丿丕禺賱賴 賰賱 賰賱賲丞 賲賳賴丕 賵賰賱 賳賯胤丞 賵賰賱 丨乇賮
丕賱孬丕賱孬丞 噩賲賴賵乇賷丞 兀賮賱丕胤賵賳
賱丕 賷賳丕丿賵賳賴丕 亘睾賷乇 匕賱賰
賵賴賰匕丕 鬲鬲噩爻丿 丕賱賰賱賲丞 丨賷丞 賲賳 賱丨賲 賵丿賲
鬲鬲賵丕乇孬賴丕 丕賱賰丕卅賳丕鬲 丕賱丨賷丞
賵鬲丨賮馗 賱賱毓丕賱賲 丨賯賴 賮賷賴丕
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乇丕賷 亘乇丕丿亘賵乇賷 賵丕丨丿 賲賳 兀毓馗賲 賰鬲丕亘 丕賱禺賷丕賱 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲
賵 賴賵 賴賳丕 賷爻鬲禺丿賲 賰賱 賲丕 賴賵 賲賲賰賳 兀丿亘賷丕賸 賱氐賯賱 乇賵丕賷鬲賴
賮賱賳 鬲噩丿 賰賱賲丞 賵丕丨丿丞 賮賷 睾賷乇 賲賵囟毓賴丕
兀賵 氐賮丞 亘賱丕 鬲賱賲賷丨 爻丕禺乇
兀賵 廿爻賲 賱丕 賷毓賳賷 卮賷卅丕賸 賲丕 賷乇鬲亘胤 亘丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
賲賳 丕賱賲賲鬲毓 兀賳 鬲賯乇兀 賱賴
鬲毓賷卮 賮賷 賯氐氐賴
鬲爻鬲賲鬲毓 亘丕爻賱賵亘賴 賵氐賵乇賴
鬲胤丕乇丿賴 賲孬賱賷 亘賷賳 毓卮乇丕鬲 丕賱賯氐氐 丕賱鬲賷 兀賯乇兀賴丕 賱賴 賵賱丕 兀卮亘毓
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賯丿賲鬲 丿丕乇 丕賱卮乇賵賯 賳爻禺丞 毓乇亘賷丞 賱賱乇賵丕賷丞
賵賱賰賳賳賷 兀馗賳 兀賳 鬲乇噩賲丞 兀丨賲丿 禺丕賱丿 鬲賵賮賷賯 (囟賲賳 爻賱爻賱丞 乇賵丕賷丕鬲 毓丕賱賲賷丞 賱賱噩賷亘) 爻鬲賰賵賳 兀賮囟賱
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廿匕丕 賰賳鬲 賯丿 卮丕賴丿鬲 丕賱賰鬲亘 鬲丨鬲乇賯 賮賷 賮賷賱賲 丕賱毓亘賯乇賷 賷賵爻賮 卮丕賴賷賳
賵賵賯毓鬲 賮賷 睾乇丕賲 丕賱賮賷賱賲 賵丕賱賲卮賴丿
賮乇亘賲丕 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賷賰賵賳 賱賰
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毓賳丿賲丕 鬲氐亘丨 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱賰鬲亘 噩乇賷賲丞
賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賷胤乇丨 乇丕賷 亘乇丕丿亘賵乇賷 兀爻賵兀 爻賷賳丕乇賷賵 賱毓卮丕賯 丕賱賰鬲亘
賲丕匕丕 賱賵 賰賳丕 賳毓賷卮 賮賷 毓丕賱賲 鬲禺賱氐 賳賴丕卅賷丕賸 賲賳 丕賱賰鬲亘 賵噩乇賲 賲賳 賷丨賲賱賴丕 兀賵 賷賳賯賱賴丕 兀賵 賷丨鬲賮馗 亘賴丕责
賲賵賳鬲丕噩 賴賵 亘胤賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賷毓賲賱 賰乇噩賱 丨乇賷賯
賵賲賴賲鬲賴 賱賷爻鬲 廿胤賮丕亍 丕賱丨乇丕卅賯 賰賲丕 賯丿 鬲馗賳 亘賱 廿卮毓丕賱賴丕
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賵賯亘毓丕鬲 乇噩丕賱 丕賱丨乇賷賯 鬲丨賲賱 丕賱乇賯賲 451 賵賲賳賴丕 廿爻鬲賲丿鬲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 毓賳賵丕賳賴丕
賷氐丨賵 賲賵賳鬲丕噩 賲賳 丕賱賳賵賲 貙 賷賳馗乇 廿賱賶 夭賵噩鬲賴 貙 鬲乇賯丿 噩賵丕乇賴 賰噩爻丿 賮賷 賯亘乇
賱丕 賷卮毓乇 亘卮賷亍
乇亘賲丕 亘毓囟 丕賱兀爻賶 貙 丕賱賱丕賲亘丕賱丕丞 貙 賵賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賲賱賱 賵丕賱丕禺鬲賳丕賯
賷禺乇噩 賱爻丕賳賴 賱賵丨卮 丕賱賱廿囟胤乇丕亘 丕賱賳賮爻賷 丕賱匕賷 賷賳賴卮賴賲丕
鬲亘鬲賱毓 丕賱夭賵噩丞 賯乇氐丕賸 貙貙 鬲卮丕賴丿 丕賱鬲賱賮丕夭
爻鬲賯賵賲 賰丕賱毓丕丿丞 亘賲丨丕賵賱丞 廿賳鬲丨丕乇 噩丿賷丿丞
賷賲囟賷 賲賵賳鬲丕噩 廿賱賶 毓賲賱賴
賰丕賳 賲賳 丕賱賲賲鬲毓 兀賳 鬲丨乇賯
It was a pleasure to burn!
賲賵賳鬲丕噩 賷毓賲賱 賮賷 丕賱賲丐爻爻丞 丕賱丨賰賵賲賷丞 丕賱賰亘乇賶 賱亘賱丿 卮賲賵賱賷(兀賷 鬲丨鬲 賳馗丕賲 爻賷丕爻賷 賷丨鬲賰乇 賮賷賴 丨夭亘 賵丕丨丿 賰丕賲賱 丕賱爻賱胤丞 賵賱丕 賷爻賲丨 亘馗賴賵乇 賲毓丕乇囟丞)賭
锟斤拷賴匕丕 丕賱丨夭亘 賷賰乇爻 賰賱 廿賲賰丕賳丕鬲賴 賮賷 賲丨丕乇亘丞 丕賱賰賱賲丞 丕賱賲賰鬲賵亘丞
賷賮鬲卮 毓賳賴丕 亘卮賴賵丞 賮賷 丕賱賱賷賱
賵賱丕 賲丕賳毓 兀亘丿丕賸 賷丕 賲賵賳鬲丕噩 賲賳 丨乇賯 丕賱賲賰丕賳 丕賱匕賷 賷丨賵賷 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 廿賳 廿爻鬲賱夭賲 丕賱兀賲乇 兀賵 禺乇噩鬲 丕賱兀賲賵乇 毓賳 丕賱爻賷胤乇丞
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丕丨卮賽 丕賱賳丕爻 亘丕賱丨賯丕卅賯 爻乇賷毓丞 丕賱丕丨鬲乇丕賯 丨鬲賶 賷卮毓乇賵丕 亘兀賳賴賲 兀匕賰賷丕亍
賱丕鬲賳爻
賴匕賴 乇賵丕賷丞 禺賷丕賱 毓賱賲賷
賴賳丕賰 賰賱丕亘 廿賱賰鬲乇賵賳賷丞 貙貙 賵丌賱丕鬲 賳丕胤賯丞
賵賰亘爻丕鬲 丕賱夭乇 賴賳丕 賱丕 賳鬲賳賴賷
賵毓丕賱賲 丕賱鬲賱賮丕夭 賷丨鬲賱 賰賱 丕賱賵賯鬲 賲丕 鬲亘賯賶 賲賳 丕賱毓賯賵賱
賮兀賷 丨賰賲 卮賲賵賱賷 賰丕賱匕賷 賯丿 鬲乇丕賴 賮賷 乇賵丕賷丞 兀禺乇賶 賰乇丕卅毓丞 噩賵乇噩 丕賵乇賵賷賱 1984
賵賮賷 毓丕賱賲賳丕 丕賱丨賯賷賯賷 鬲毓賷卮 亘毓囟 賲卮丕賴丿賴 賰賱 賷賵賲
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May 26, 2022
Library as cathedral, as all libraries should be - John Rylands Library, Manchester.
Read me, love me, touch me, treasure me
This is a book about the power of books that is itself steeped with references, both explicit and indirect, to the great works that permeate our culture so thoroughly that we do not always notice them - until they鈥檙e gone. Bradbury shows us the horror of a hedonistic but unhappy world where books and ideas are banned in the futile pursuit of the illusion of happiness. As with A Clockwork Orange (see my review HERE), there is a constant tension between the deliciously poetic language and the horrors of the setting.
The intended message of this 62-year-old novel is different: a prescient warning about the addictive power of continuous, passive imbibing from the virtual worlds and interactive screens that are our constant companions. I guess Bradbury was so infused in bookish culture himself that he didn鈥檛 realise how loudly the literary message shouts from every page, almost drowning out everything else: read me, love me, touch me, treasure me. Reading is a physical, sensual, transformative relationship, not merely a mental process. See this excellent article (thanks, Apatt!) for Bradbury's views on the persistent misinterpretation of his book: . It's interesting to compare this with his Usher II, where books are burned for the opposite reason: to make people face reality by quashing imagination. See my review HERE.
Nevertheless, the balance of themes is shifting: smartphones and the Internet of Things mean we鈥檙e catching up with Bradbury鈥檚 vision. Certainly, I was more aware of his technological warning than on previous readings - but it鈥檚 still the insatiable thirst for what is in and from books (ideas, discussion, and knowledge) that stokes my passion for this novel:
鈥�The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.鈥�
As Henry Cowles recently, 鈥淪creens are not just a part of life today: they are our lives.鈥�
The weak characterisation, cruelly caricatured Mildred, and the rationale and details of the totalitarian state鈥檚 oppression, censorship (sadly apt after the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris in January 2015), and warmongering are secondary - just the canvas on which Bradbury delicately paints his nightmare, by moonlight, to the pitter-patter of raindrops and the whisper of falling leaves.
tl;dnr - stick with the four paragraphs, above.
Plot and Narrative Structure
The plot is well-known: It is set in the near future, where all books are banned because they are elitist and hence cause unhappiness and division. Instead, the population is fed continuous inane soap operas to lull their minds into soporific approximation of non-unhappiness. TV really does rot their brains, or at least sap their ability to think for themselves. Firemen no longer put out fires, but instead burn houses where books are found.
Montag is a fireman, so part of the regime. But he is tempted by the unknown promise of what he destroys, takes greater and greater risks, and ends up a fugitive, living rough with other rebels, each of whom has memorised a book so that when things change, they can be rewritten. (Ironically, these people also destroy books - just the physical ones, after they have memorised them.)
There are three parts:
1. 鈥淚t Was a Pleasure to Burn鈥� shows the restrictions of Montag鈥檚 world, and his growing, but unfocused, dissatisfaction with it, contrasted with beautiful imagery of the natural world, especially moonlight and trees - and fire.
2. 鈥淭he Sieve and the Sand鈥� is about confrontation: with self and others - with truth.
3. Finally, in 鈥淏urning Bright鈥�, revelation leads to liberation, danger, and the possibility of freedom. But at what cost?
QUOTES
I had forgotten (or maybe never noticed!) how wonderful the language is. This review is even more focused on quotes than usual, so I never forget.
Contradictions
鈥� "The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭hey walked in the warm-cool blowing night on the silvered pavement.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淗e felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a not trembling, the two halves grinding one upon the other.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淗e was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭he Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live.鈥�
Mechanical Hound
This thing, this high-tech version of the most atavistic, omnipotent monsters that plague our dreams from infancy, is where Bradbury鈥檚 hybrid of beauty and horror reaches its peak:
鈥� 鈥淭he moonlight鈥� touched here and there on the brass and the copper and the steel of the faintly trembling beast. Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive capillary hairs in the nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature that quivered gently, gently, gently, its eight legs spidered under it on rubber-padded paws.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淥ut of the helicopter glided something that was not machine, not animal, not dead, not alive, glowing with a pale green luminosity.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淗e could feel the Hound, like autumn, come cold and dry and swift, like a wind that didn't stir grass鈥� The Hound did not touch the world. It carried its silence with it.鈥�
(Moon) Light, Rain, Nature
鈥� 鈥淟aughter blew across the moon-colored lawn.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭he moonlight distilled in each eye to form a silver cataract.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭hey read the long afternoon through while the cold November rain fell from the sky in the quiet house. They sat in the hall because the parlour was so empty and gray-looking without its walls lite with orange and yellow confetti.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淵ou could feel the war getting ready in the sky that night. The way the clouds moved aside and came back, and the way the stars looked, a million of them swimming between the clouds鈥� and the feeling that the sky might fall upon the city and turn it to chalk dust, and the moon go up in red fire.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭he river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapours for supper.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭he more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty.鈥�
Burned Books as Once-Living Things
鈥� 鈥淭he flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭hey fell like slaughtered birds and the woman stood below, like a small girl, among the bodies.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭he books lay like great mounds of fishes left to dry.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭heir covers torn off and spilled out like swan-feathers.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭he books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淟ight the first page, light the second page. Each becomes a black butterfly.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭he floor littered with swarms of black moths that had died in a single storm.鈥�
Fire
If BuzzFeed is to believed (a medium-sized "if", imo), its original title was not "Fahrenheit 451", but "The Fireman". He and his publishers thought it a boring title, so they called a local fire station and asked what temperature paper burned at. The firemen put Bradbury on hold while they burned a book, then reported back the temperature, and the rest is history.
鈥� The opening sentence: 鈥淚t was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. with this brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭he books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭hose who do not build must burn.鈥� (Do they ignite the fire, or are they consumed by it?)
鈥� 鈥淚t鈥檚 perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淎 bloom of fire, a single wondrous blossom that curled in petals of yellow and blue and orange.鈥�
鈥� A bonfire, 鈥渨as not burning; it was warming... He hadn鈥檛 known fire could look this way. He had never thought鈥� it could give as well as take.鈥�
The descriptions of fire are also the best feature of Bradbury's short story A Sound of Thunder which I reviewed HERE.
Dangers of Books
Many of the reasons given could just as easily apply to TV shows; Faber says as much to Montag, 鈥淚t鈥檚 not books you need, it鈥檚 some of the things that once were in books鈥� and that those same things could be in the TV shows, but aren鈥檛. Instead, the TV shows are specially designed to numb minds to all except vague pleasure.
鈥� 鈥淏ooks aren鈥檛 people鈥� my family [soap stars] is people鈥�.
鈥� 鈥淣one of these books agree with each other鈥� The people in those books never lived.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淚t didn鈥檛 come from the government down鈥� Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick鈥� Today鈥� you can stay happy all the time鈥� because only comics, confessions and trade journals are permitted.
鈥� 鈥淭he firemen are rarely necessary. The public stopped reading of its own accord.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淲e must all be alike. Not everyone was born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal鈥� Then all are happy鈥�, protected from the 鈥渞ightful dread of being inferior鈥�.
鈥� 鈥淥ur civilization is so vast that we can鈥檛 have our minorities upset and stirred鈥�, so everything that might upset anyone is destroyed.
鈥� Filled with facts, people 鈥渇eel they鈥檙e thinking鈥� they鈥檒l be happy because facts of that sort don鈥檛 change.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淎ll the silly things the words mean, all the false promises, and all the second hand notions and time-worn philosophies.鈥�
Dangers of VR
There is bitter irony in a 鈥渓iving room鈥� where the only 鈥渓iving鈥� is that of fictitious people, passively observed on the huge screens on the walls.
鈥� Entering the bedroom 鈥渨as like coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum after the moon had set.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淗er eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable. And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound鈥� coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind. The room was indeed empty.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淧eople don鈥檛 talk about anything鈥� They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming-pools and say how swell.鈥�
鈥� Brainwashing: 鈥淚t鈥檚 always someone else鈥檚 husband dies.鈥� and 鈥淣othing will ever happen to me.鈥�
General Quotes
鈥� Clarice鈥檚 face had 鈥渁 kind of gentle hunger that touched over everything with tireless curiosity鈥�.
鈥� 鈥淗e felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over, and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out. Darkness.鈥�
鈥� A stomach pump: 鈥渓ooking for all the old water and old time gathered there鈥� Did it drink of the darkness?... The impersonal operation鈥� could gaze into the soul of the person whom he was pumping out.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭he world had melted down and sprung up in a new and colorless formation.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淗e slapped her face with amazing objectivity.鈥� (It is not being condoned.)
鈥� 鈥淪he made the empty rooms roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust of guilt that was sucked into their nostrils and they plunged about.鈥� That鈥檚 why owners shouldn鈥檛 be present.
鈥� 鈥淭ime has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.鈥� A line from a poem by Alexander Smith that Montag glimpses, 鈥渂ut it blazed in his mind for the next minutes as if stamped there with fiery steel.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淗is hand had been infected [by picking up a book], and soon it would be his arms. He could feel the poison working up鈥� His hands were ravenous. And his eyes were beginning to feel hunger, as if they must look at something, anything, everything.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淚 don鈥檛 talk things鈥� I talk the meanings of things.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淚f you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭he good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭hey were like a monstrous crystal chandelier tinkling in a thousand chimes, he saw their Cheshire Cat smiles burning through the walls.鈥�
鈥� "There was a crash like falling parts of a dream fashioned out of warped glass, mirrors, and crystal prisms."
鈥� 鈥淲e cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.鈥� From Boswell鈥檚 The Life of Samuel Johnson.
鈥� A buzzing helicopter 鈥渓ike butterflies puzzled by autumn鈥�.
鈥� A ten-lane highway: 鈥淎 boatless river frozen there in the raw light of the high white arc-lamps; you could drown trying to cross it.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淗is nose was suddenly good enough to sense the path he had made in the air of the room.鈥�
Homework
I choose to inhale and absorb the atmosphere of the book, without stopping every few sentences to investigate each possible reference and quote, but those who enjoy literary detective work will find plenty of material here.
The other mystery is Captain Beatty: he is remarkably well-versed in the classics of literature, philosophy and history. 鈥淚 was using the very books you clung to, to rebut you鈥� What traitors books can be.鈥� But is that explanation enough?
What Book Would You Be for Posterity?
The obvious question is, if you were going to become a book and memorise it for posterity, what would you choose? Would it be cheating to pick "Fahrenheit 451"? Should it be for personal comfort or something that will be useful in rebuilding society?
The hardest questions is, would you give up everything for literature?
鈥淎ll we can do is keep the knowledge鈥� We鈥檙e no more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise鈥� You鈥檙e not important. You鈥檙e not anything. Some day the load we鈥檙e carrying with us may help someone.鈥� When people ask what we do, 鈥淲e鈥檙e remembering鈥�.
In Summary
I love the fact that this book is a paean to the power of the written word: that people will live and die for it, and will wither without the transformative power of fictional worlds and the insights of others. The lure and love of literature is irrepressible. Books "stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us."
Postscript
Related to this - and to 1984 - Derek (Guilty of thoughtcrime) wrote in a group discussion:
"There's a distinct echo in both books of the Garden of Eden story, with Eve tempting Adam to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And in each case, it's a denial of the dogma that this is the original sin."
Film Adaptations
1966 Film - Watch
Truffaut's 1966 version is visually stunning and broadly faithful to the book. See details on imdb .
Riffing on This and Truffaut
See Megan Dunn鈥檚 brilliant first book, Tinderbox, which I reviewed HERE. She intended to rewrite 451 from the point of view of the female characters, but ended up equally fascinated by Truffaut's adaptation - the very process of adapting the book. The result is a fascinating, personal, and funny exploration of her attempts to adapt someone else鈥檚 work. It also includes many fascinating and sometimes surprising details about the film, such as Truffaut hand-picking the books that were burned in the opening scene.
2018 Film - Avoid
Adapting a book for screen can excuse or require changes. But the 2018 one was a travesty that exacerbates the common misunderstanding of Bradbury's intended message AND adds a ludicrous new plot in its place. There is nothing at all about the addictive and mind-numbing allure of superficial soap operas (Montag doesn't even have a wife), but there is a weird sciency thing about books being encoded in the DNA of a bird, so they'll live for ever! It wasn't even well acted or written (I presume it didn't improve in the second half). See details on imdb .
March 4, 2025
A book, a flamethrower, and a very troubled mind.
In a dystopian future, firemen don't put out fires... they start it. Books, and freethinkers, are burned with a flamethrower without a seconds thought. Guy Montag, one of these incendiary firemen, after a series of events starts awakening from his long and blind indoctrination. To his horror, he finds an identity and a mind of his own. But in a completely monitored and subjugated society, thinking can cost your life. One single mistake and Guy may find himself on the other side of the flamethrower...
A very short novel, with a lot of feel of Orwell's 1984. A novel that emphasizes the value of written legacy, books, and free will. An interesting read, with lots of moments and quotations to remember, but somewhat far from the dazzling 1984 experience.
What I couldn't grasp was Bradbury's confusing way to describe things, not because of the vocabulary, but because of the phrasing. Several of them seemed incomprehensible, or incoherent. Maybe I just got one of those weird faulty electronic copies. Or maybe this was just a book that I may have been able to enjoy much more reading it in spanish. Maybe. Might try Martian Chronicles someday, in spanish.
**** Both movies fell kinda flat. Interesting, but not really enjoyable, and specially not 2018.
1966 - Definitely the most faithful to the book. Some important changes to the original plot, but welcomed ones. Unremarkable acting, at best. Decent effects, considering. Not necessarily a good film, but it does have some redeeming qualities.
2018 - It would be generous if said it has any redeeming qualities. Terribly unfaithful to the book. Besides the names, setting and *some* basic plot, everything else was changed. And not in a good way. Really nice effects though.
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PERSONAL NOTE :
[1953] [159p] [Dystopian] [3.5] [Conditional Recommendable]
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鈽呪槄鈽呪槅鈽� Fahrenheit 451. [3.5]
鈽呪槄鈽呪槅鈽� The Martian Chronicles.
鈽呪槄鈽呪槄鈽� The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl.
鈽呪槄鈽呪槅鈽� I See You Never. [3.5]
鈽呪槄鈽呪槅鈽� The Crowd.
鈽呪槄鈽嗏槅鈽� Embroidery. [2.5]
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Un libro, un lanzallamas, y una mente muy perturbada.
En un futuro dist贸pico, los bomberos no apagan incendios... sino que los inician. Los libros, y los librepensadores, son quemados con lanzallamas sin mediar palabra. Guy Montag, uno de estos bomberos incendiarios, tras una serie de eventos empieza a despertar de su largo y ciego adoctrinamiento. Para su horror, encuentra una identidad y pensamiento propio. Pero en una sociedad completamente vigilada y subyugada, pensar puede costar la vida. Un simple error y Guy podr铆a encontrarse del otro lado del lanzallamas...
Una novela muy corta, con mucho feel de 1984 de Orwell. Una novela que resalta el valor de los libros, el legado de la palabra, y del pensamiento libre. Una lectura interesante, con varias citas y momentos para el recuerdo, pero algo lejos de la genial experiencia que fue leer 1984.
Lo que no pude digerir es la forma enrevesada que tiene Bradbury para describir las cosas. Reiteradas frases me resultaron incoherentes o irrelevantes. Tal vez me top茅 con una de esas raras malas copias digitales. O quiz谩s 茅ste sea uno de esos libros que tal vez hubiera podido disfrutar mucho m谩s ley茅ndolo en espa帽ol. Tal vez. Intentar茅 con Cr贸nicas Marcianas alg煤n d铆a, en espa帽ol.
**** Ambas peliculas me cayeron sosas. Interesantes, pero no muy disfrutables, especialmente no 2018.
1966 - Definitivamente la m谩s fiel al libro. Algunos cambios importantes a la trama original, pero bien recibidos. Actuaci贸n regular, como mucho. Efectos decentes, considerando. No necesariamente una buena pel铆cula, pero tiene algunas buenas cualidades.
2018 - Ser铆a generoso decir que tiene alguna buena cualidad. Terriblemente infiel al esp铆ritu del libro. Aparte de los nombres, contexto y *algo* de la trama original, todo fue cambiado. Y no de una buena manera. Muy buenos efectos, eso s铆.
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NOTA PERSONAL :
[1953] [159p] [Distop铆a] [3.5] [Recomendable Condicional]
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In a dystopian future, firemen don't put out fires... they start it. Books, and freethinkers, are burned with a flamethrower without a seconds thought. Guy Montag, one of these incendiary firemen, after a series of events starts awakening from his long and blind indoctrination. To his horror, he finds an identity and a mind of his own. But in a completely monitored and subjugated society, thinking can cost your life. One single mistake and Guy may find himself on the other side of the flamethrower...
A very short novel, with a lot of feel of Orwell's 1984. A novel that emphasizes the value of written legacy, books, and free will. An interesting read, with lots of moments and quotations to remember, but somewhat far from the dazzling 1984 experience.
What I couldn't grasp was Bradbury's confusing way to describe things, not because of the vocabulary, but because of the phrasing. Several of them seemed incomprehensible, or incoherent. Maybe I just got one of those weird faulty electronic copies. Or maybe this was just a book that I may have been able to enjoy much more reading it in spanish. Maybe. Might try Martian Chronicles someday, in spanish.
**** Both movies fell kinda flat. Interesting, but not really enjoyable, and specially not 2018.
1966 - Definitely the most faithful to the book. Some important changes to the original plot, but welcomed ones. Unremarkable acting, at best. Decent effects, considering. Not necessarily a good film, but it does have some redeeming qualities.
2018 - It would be generous if said it has any redeeming qualities. Terribly unfaithful to the book. Besides the names, setting and *some* basic plot, everything else was changed. And not in a good way. Really nice effects though.
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PERSONAL NOTE :
[1953] [159p] [Dystopian] [3.5] [Conditional Recommendable]
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鈽呪槄鈽呪槅鈽� Fahrenheit 451. [3.5]
鈽呪槄鈽呪槅鈽� The Martian Chronicles.
鈽呪槄鈽呪槄鈽� The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl.
鈽呪槄鈽呪槅鈽� I See You Never. [3.5]
鈽呪槄鈽呪槅鈽� The Crowd.
鈽呪槄鈽嗏槅鈽� Embroidery. [2.5]
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Un libro, un lanzallamas, y una mente muy perturbada.
En un futuro dist贸pico, los bomberos no apagan incendios... sino que los inician. Los libros, y los librepensadores, son quemados con lanzallamas sin mediar palabra. Guy Montag, uno de estos bomberos incendiarios, tras una serie de eventos empieza a despertar de su largo y ciego adoctrinamiento. Para su horror, encuentra una identidad y pensamiento propio. Pero en una sociedad completamente vigilada y subyugada, pensar puede costar la vida. Un simple error y Guy podr铆a encontrarse del otro lado del lanzallamas...
Una novela muy corta, con mucho feel de 1984 de Orwell. Una novela que resalta el valor de los libros, el legado de la palabra, y del pensamiento libre. Una lectura interesante, con varias citas y momentos para el recuerdo, pero algo lejos de la genial experiencia que fue leer 1984.
Lo que no pude digerir es la forma enrevesada que tiene Bradbury para describir las cosas. Reiteradas frases me resultaron incoherentes o irrelevantes. Tal vez me top茅 con una de esas raras malas copias digitales. O quiz谩s 茅ste sea uno de esos libros que tal vez hubiera podido disfrutar mucho m谩s ley茅ndolo en espa帽ol. Tal vez. Intentar茅 con Cr贸nicas Marcianas alg煤n d铆a, en espa帽ol.
**** Ambas peliculas me cayeron sosas. Interesantes, pero no muy disfrutables, especialmente no 2018.
1966 - Definitivamente la m谩s fiel al libro. Algunos cambios importantes a la trama original, pero bien recibidos. Actuaci贸n regular, como mucho. Efectos decentes, considerando. No necesariamente una buena pel铆cula, pero tiene algunas buenas cualidades.
2018 - Ser铆a generoso decir que tiene alguna buena cualidad. Terriblemente infiel al esp铆ritu del libro. Aparte de los nombres, contexto y *algo* de la trama original, todo fue cambiado. Y no de una buena manera. Muy buenos efectos, eso s铆.
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NOTA PERSONAL :
[1953] [159p] [Distop铆a] [3.5] [Recomendable Condicional]
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July 29, 2021
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published in 1953. Fahrenheit 451 is set in an unspecified city at an unspecified time in the future after the year 1960.
Guy Montag is a "fireman" employed to burn houses containing outlawed books. He is married but has no children.
One fall night while returning from work, he meets his new neighbor, a teenage girl named Clarisse McClellan, whose free-thinking ideals and liberating spirit cause him to question his life and his own perceived happiness.
Montag returns home to find that his wife Mildred has overdosed on sleeping pills, and he calls for medical attention. ...
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Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published in 1953. Fahrenheit 451 is set in an unspecified city at an unspecified time in the future after the year 1960.
Guy Montag is a "fireman" employed to burn houses containing outlawed books. He is married but has no children.
One fall night while returning from work, he meets his new neighbor, a teenage girl named Clarisse McClellan, whose free-thinking ideals and liberating spirit cause him to question his life and his own perceived happiness.
Montag returns home to find that his wife Mildred has overdosed on sleeping pills, and he calls for medical attention. ...
鬲丕乇蹖禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮: 乇賵夭 爻賵賲 賲丕賴 賮賵乇蹖賴 爻丕賱 1984賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
毓賳賵丕賳: 賮丕乇賳賴丕蹖鬲 451貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 乇蹖 亘乇丕丿亘乇蹖貨 賲鬲乇噩賲: 毓賱丕亍丕賱丿蹖賳 亘賴卮鬲蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 丌卮鬲蹖丕賳蹖貙 1363貙 丿乇 200氐貨 賲賵囟賵毓: 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賴丕蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿诏丕賳 丕蹖丕賱丕鬲 賲鬲丨丿賴 丌賲乇蹖讴丕 - 爻丿賴 20賲
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March 25, 2025
Oh, come on!
Who doesn't like to set shit on fire?!
But seriously.
Don't burn books. <-- that's wasteful!
Or witches. <--that's murder
Or buildings. <--that's arson
Or blue jeans. <--that's...what? no. seriously. back when I was a teenager, I remember this wacky church youth group burning all their jeans because Jesus wanted the girls to wear dresses.
You can however burn calories.
Alight, as much as I love Richard Simmons, I'm veering away from the point.
There are some books that anyone who loves to read feels like they need to get around to. And Fahrenheit 451 is one of those bucket list books that I've been meaning to tick off for years now.
And now I'm done. Ta-da!
So what does that mean? Did this book change my life?!
Short answer is no.
This is a really weird little story with an even weirder ending. <--not BAD, just weird.
Ok. Maybe it is a teensy bit bad in spots. But I think this has the same problem (for me) that most of these older dystopian novels have, in that it depicts humans as just absolutely stupid and prone to easily giving up real relationships. I think that's just dumb.
People crave people.
Now, I'm not saying that there aren't some people who get sucked into too much fake digital shit in whatever form it may take for them - porn, gaming, social media sites, and whatever else.
BUT. There have always been folks that just retreat from the real world.
Think about those weird hermits who live in some creepy cabin in the woods because they just can't deal with life and think other humans aren't a necessity.
I'm not referring to introverts or folks who are shy, because even if it's hard for them to be in crowds or to act like a social butterfly, they usually have a small group of trusted loved ones.
Point is, this book made it seem as though once people stopped reading and (basically) started watching tv they just ignored everything and everyone.
That just doesn't track.
And I say this as someone who absolutely loves books, but stories are stories.
Whether you hold a hardback, scroll through an ebook, love the visuals of comics, enjoy listening to audiobooks, or even (gasp!) watch a movie.
All of those? They're a medium that allows you to escape.
Allows you to reach out and live another life, see things through someone else's eyes, and maybe expand your mind.
Don't be a snob. There's room for it all.
And when you actually take a look at how most people watch television shows or movies, we tend to do it in a social way. I watch certain things so that I can talk to my friends about it later, or I pop some popcorn and con one of my kids to sit on the couch with me and watch something stupid together.
I'm not saying you'll be totally fine if you immerse yourself in some sort of virtual world and forget to bathe.
And I'm certainly not saying that we'll be ok if we start lighting books on fire.
What I am saying is that I thought a lot of this particular story was a product of the fears of the time.
TV will rot your brain!
And there may be the slight potential that you could be letting evil spirits into your home if you sit too close to it.
However, there are some things to take away from it that I think are important and potentially relevant still.
Censorship of any kind, written or otherwise, is dangerous.
You may hate what someone says, you may hate what they stand for, you may think their ideas are vile, but it's so very important to remind yourself that if you try to squash their ability to express those ideas with speech, you're own right to express your ideology and opinions will be the next to go. You also may want to remember that just because you've stopped someone from saying something, doesn't mean they don't still think it. And that shit will fester like a boil.
It will eventually come to a head in a very ugly way because that's how human nature works and no amount of shushing and pretending will stop it.
I would rather be awkwardly uncomfortable because someone I disagree with has a platform than watch the eruption that will happen when the entire world ignites from one side of an argument that was silenced for too long.
Dude, everyone knows that's when the machines will take over!
Ok, about that ending.
I felt the spirit of Fonzie beside them as Guy & that odd little group of hobos jumped that shark on those train tracks. Am I alone or did anyone else think that whole thing was mighty random?
You've got sleepers hidden all over who've memorized books? What? You've 'figured out' how to unlock the magic photographic memory gene?
Ok. Sure.
Why not?
I also felt like that the killer robot dog was kind of a waste of an incredible idea. It started off like it was going to be super scary and play a huge part in the story and then...yeah, a little bit at the end. But it was kind of anticlimactic. <--to me
I guess I just expected more?
At the end of the day, I'm really glad I finally got around to this. It's definitely required reading, but on the upside, it's pretty short.
AND it's not as depressing as , so there's that.
Publisher: ListenUp Audiobooks
Edition: Unabridged
Tim Robbins - Narrator
Who doesn't like to set shit on fire?!
But seriously.
Don't burn books. <-- that's wasteful!
Or witches. <--that's murder
Or buildings. <--that's arson
Or blue jeans. <--that's...what? no. seriously. back when I was a teenager, I remember this wacky church youth group burning all their jeans because Jesus wanted the girls to wear dresses.
You can however burn calories.
Alight, as much as I love Richard Simmons, I'm veering away from the point.
There are some books that anyone who loves to read feels like they need to get around to. And Fahrenheit 451 is one of those bucket list books that I've been meaning to tick off for years now.
And now I'm done. Ta-da!
So what does that mean? Did this book change my life?!
Short answer is no.
This is a really weird little story with an even weirder ending. <--not BAD, just weird.
Ok. Maybe it is a teensy bit bad in spots. But I think this has the same problem (for me) that most of these older dystopian novels have, in that it depicts humans as just absolutely stupid and prone to easily giving up real relationships. I think that's just dumb.
People crave people.
Now, I'm not saying that there aren't some people who get sucked into too much fake digital shit in whatever form it may take for them - porn, gaming, social media sites, and whatever else.
BUT. There have always been folks that just retreat from the real world.
Think about those weird hermits who live in some creepy cabin in the woods because they just can't deal with life and think other humans aren't a necessity.
I'm not referring to introverts or folks who are shy, because even if it's hard for them to be in crowds or to act like a social butterfly, they usually have a small group of trusted loved ones.
Point is, this book made it seem as though once people stopped reading and (basically) started watching tv they just ignored everything and everyone.
That just doesn't track.
And I say this as someone who absolutely loves books, but stories are stories.
Whether you hold a hardback, scroll through an ebook, love the visuals of comics, enjoy listening to audiobooks, or even (gasp!) watch a movie.
All of those? They're a medium that allows you to escape.
Allows you to reach out and live another life, see things through someone else's eyes, and maybe expand your mind.
Don't be a snob. There's room for it all.
And when you actually take a look at how most people watch television shows or movies, we tend to do it in a social way. I watch certain things so that I can talk to my friends about it later, or I pop some popcorn and con one of my kids to sit on the couch with me and watch something stupid together.
I'm not saying you'll be totally fine if you immerse yourself in some sort of virtual world and forget to bathe.
And I'm certainly not saying that we'll be ok if we start lighting books on fire.
What I am saying is that I thought a lot of this particular story was a product of the fears of the time.
TV will rot your brain!
And there may be the slight potential that you could be letting evil spirits into your home if you sit too close to it.
However, there are some things to take away from it that I think are important and potentially relevant still.
Censorship of any kind, written or otherwise, is dangerous.
You may hate what someone says, you may hate what they stand for, you may think their ideas are vile, but it's so very important to remind yourself that if you try to squash their ability to express those ideas with speech, you're own right to express your ideology and opinions will be the next to go. You also may want to remember that just because you've stopped someone from saying something, doesn't mean they don't still think it. And that shit will fester like a boil.
It will eventually come to a head in a very ugly way because that's how human nature works and no amount of shushing and pretending will stop it.
I would rather be awkwardly uncomfortable because someone I disagree with has a platform than watch the eruption that will happen when the entire world ignites from one side of an argument that was silenced for too long.
Dude, everyone knows that's when the machines will take over!
Ok, about that ending.
I felt the spirit of Fonzie beside them as Guy & that odd little group of hobos jumped that shark on those train tracks. Am I alone or did anyone else think that whole thing was mighty random?
You've got sleepers hidden all over who've memorized books? What? You've 'figured out' how to unlock the magic photographic memory gene?
Ok. Sure.
Why not?
I also felt like that the killer robot dog was kind of a waste of an incredible idea. It started off like it was going to be super scary and play a huge part in the story and then...yeah, a little bit at the end. But it was kind of anticlimactic. <--to me
I guess I just expected more?
At the end of the day, I'm really glad I finally got around to this. It's definitely required reading, but on the upside, it's pretty short.
AND it's not as depressing as , so there's that.
Publisher: ListenUp Audiobooks
Edition: Unabridged
Tim Robbins - Narrator
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April 26, 2021
The control of information has always been a preoccupation of governments which are peopled by the power-hungry as all politicians are. Without paper books there will be no definitive version for anyone or everyone to consult and we will get the official line and that will be it. Until the government changes. Then there will be another official line. And if that government stays in power for say twenty or thirty years hardly anyone will remember the truth or even a different version to pass down. A world without unchangeable, written history is a world with only stories.
An earlier review I wrote of a different edition. that has been hidden in Community Reviews it seems because of what I wrote about Amazon and 欧宝娱乐. If the cap fits....
An earlier review I wrote of a different edition. that has been hidden in Community Reviews it seems because of what I wrote about Amazon and 欧宝娱乐. If the cap fits....
May 5, 2025
This isn't my favourite classic dystopian, but Bradbury was onto something with his cautionary tale, despite being published in 1953.
Sure, global literacy rates are at an all-time high, and we can access information at lightning speed. It's easy to argue that Bradbury's fears of information censorship seem outdated.
Yet, for me, his message transcends literal book burning鈥攊t makes me think about what's emphasised or suppressed in our media-saturated world, no matter the medium. We're bombarded with information. So what gets promoted or buried? I guess it鈥檚 not so far-fetched to think we live in a world where media manipulation can hide atrocities while everyone鈥檚 fixated on who wore the best dress at the Met Gala. (Zendaya, duh.)
Love it or hate it, it's a thought-provoker.
2025 edit: Support your libraries + read as many banned books as you can.
Sure, global literacy rates are at an all-time high, and we can access information at lightning speed. It's easy to argue that Bradbury's fears of information censorship seem outdated.
Yet, for me, his message transcends literal book burning鈥攊t makes me think about what's emphasised or suppressed in our media-saturated world, no matter the medium. We're bombarded with information. So what gets promoted or buried? I guess it鈥檚 not so far-fetched to think we live in a world where media manipulation can hide atrocities while everyone鈥檚 fixated on who wore the best dress at the Met Gala. (Zendaya, duh.)
Love it or hate it, it's a thought-provoker.
2025 edit: Support your libraries + read as many banned books as you can.
March 7, 2024
It is a classic of American literature anyway.
This fact allowed me to understand its success and anticipation. Fortunately, I knew the content because the face is very bizarre with its deaf dialogue between Montag and his wife; it seems to come from another planet as she is beside her pumps. The author is so correct in some reasoning that it freaks out our future, to us readers, as the effect of the "masses." How could the world become if books became people's enemies and happiness? Thus, the author created an extraordinary book with this simple question on so few pages (191p). The original story forces us to remain vigilant if we do not want literature worthy of the name to fall into oblivion.
As you will understand, this novel is an excellent discovery; even if I preferred the comic book version, putting the right images in this type of story is much more pleasant. If you still haven't read it, I recommend checking out this classic of American fantasy literature. Despite a particular kind of writing, it made me want to discover new novels by this author that are so full of accuracy in anticipating the world to come.
This fact allowed me to understand its success and anticipation. Fortunately, I knew the content because the face is very bizarre with its deaf dialogue between Montag and his wife; it seems to come from another planet as she is beside her pumps. The author is so correct in some reasoning that it freaks out our future, to us readers, as the effect of the "masses." How could the world become if books became people's enemies and happiness? Thus, the author created an extraordinary book with this simple question on so few pages (191p). The original story forces us to remain vigilant if we do not want literature worthy of the name to fall into oblivion.
As you will understand, this novel is an excellent discovery; even if I preferred the comic book version, putting the right images in this type of story is much more pleasant. If you still haven't read it, I recommend checking out this classic of American fantasy literature. Despite a particular kind of writing, it made me want to discover new novels by this author that are so full of accuracy in anticipating the world to come.
October 3, 2017
The Wall Controls You - The Silent Take-Over Of Screen-Time!
What does "Fahrenheit 451" mean to me? Most of all, it is a declaration of love for books in an era of fast entertainment and instant gratification as a means of political control of the masses.
I used to think and - or a combination of those two - had a more accurate take on human mind-slavery in the age of technology than "Fahrenheit 451". But increasingly, I see the world as Bradbury saw it, with people sitting in front of screens, absorbed by meaningless entertainment without purpose or fulfillment, losing their ability to talk to each other. And with the dialogue, reflection disappears from our homes and schools.
Students do "research" without ever touching a book and spit out slogans they find online, but they can't put them into context. They write their essays on screens and unlearn how to spell. They dream of a career which makes them visible on screens as well: they want to be athletes, singers, movie stars. Out of the 200 teenagers I asked, only 2 had read a book during their ten weeks of summer holidays, and most of them couldn't even say what they had been doing instead. Time passes without being noticed in front of a screen - a WALL, as it is called in the novel.
If you do not practice the skill of reading and of appreciating literature, it is lost. The book burning that takes place in "Fahrenheit 451" is not even necessary in the real world of today. Those rare students that like reading can't share their interest with anyone anymore, and it doesn't spread:
"With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be."
What Bradbury meant as satire is my work reality.
So what have I done myself, hopeless book lover that I am? I have taken to the woods, figuratively speaking, like the characters in "Fahrenheit 451". Barring television screens and computer games - the walls - from my home, I have made sure reading stays alive. My walls are filled with books, not screens. I waste no opportunity to talk about books with my children, and I make them learn poems by heart. To develop a lasting love for literature, it has to be nurtured. You are not born a reader, just like you are not born a football player or a dancer. Accessibility, motivation and training are necessary prerequisites for any interests to form. It takes time and care.
Fahrenheit 451 - the temperature at which books burn. I think Bradbury got that wrong. It is what happened to books in the past, when politicians actively tried to destroy specific books. There is no need for them to do that anymore. In our world, books drown - in the flood of quick information and easy entertainment.
The year of the flood... after the fire came the water, and it caused more damage!
What does "Fahrenheit 451" mean to me? Most of all, it is a declaration of love for books in an era of fast entertainment and instant gratification as a means of political control of the masses.
I used to think and - or a combination of those two - had a more accurate take on human mind-slavery in the age of technology than "Fahrenheit 451". But increasingly, I see the world as Bradbury saw it, with people sitting in front of screens, absorbed by meaningless entertainment without purpose or fulfillment, losing their ability to talk to each other. And with the dialogue, reflection disappears from our homes and schools.
Students do "research" without ever touching a book and spit out slogans they find online, but they can't put them into context. They write their essays on screens and unlearn how to spell. They dream of a career which makes them visible on screens as well: they want to be athletes, singers, movie stars. Out of the 200 teenagers I asked, only 2 had read a book during their ten weeks of summer holidays, and most of them couldn't even say what they had been doing instead. Time passes without being noticed in front of a screen - a WALL, as it is called in the novel.
If you do not practice the skill of reading and of appreciating literature, it is lost. The book burning that takes place in "Fahrenheit 451" is not even necessary in the real world of today. Those rare students that like reading can't share their interest with anyone anymore, and it doesn't spread:
"With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be."
What Bradbury meant as satire is my work reality.
So what have I done myself, hopeless book lover that I am? I have taken to the woods, figuratively speaking, like the characters in "Fahrenheit 451". Barring television screens and computer games - the walls - from my home, I have made sure reading stays alive. My walls are filled with books, not screens. I waste no opportunity to talk about books with my children, and I make them learn poems by heart. To develop a lasting love for literature, it has to be nurtured. You are not born a reader, just like you are not born a football player or a dancer. Accessibility, motivation and training are necessary prerequisites for any interests to form. It takes time and care.
Fahrenheit 451 - the temperature at which books burn. I think Bradbury got that wrong. It is what happened to books in the past, when politicians actively tried to destroy specific books. There is no need for them to do that anymore. In our world, books drown - in the flood of quick information and easy entertainment.
The year of the flood... after the fire came the water, and it caused more damage!
May 2, 2019
An absolute anti-utopian classic of the 20th century. I did a speech about that book in class (in 1988 I guess) to convince the other pupils how important this books is. The temperature at which books burn. No slowdown, only highspeed on the streets, reality shows at home with you being part of it, a world dominated by a government given truth. What happens if someone dares to look behind the scenes? Dares to read a uncensored book? Who is this group trying to find the truth beyond the fact falsifying system of the government? This is a must read. Ray Bradbury had a look into our modern times when he wrote this groundbraking classic. One of the best books of the 20th century!
May 6, 2025
In Ray Bradbury's creepy classic, Montag is your typical modern fireman , burning books for a living with his dedicated gang. None of that old -fashioned putting out fires, he and a hose full of kerosene and just a little old match, does the trick. Sets books a blazing, it's more fun too! Besides no one reads anymore and the warm inferno, towering high into the sky, makes a pretty picture, lighting the cold, dark night . Father was a fireman, so was his grandfather, the family business, you can call it, Montag didn't really have a choice, tradition must continue. Coming back from a good evening's work, the fire setter, pardon...the savior of the world (keeping bad ideas from spreading to the gullible public, they need protection). He discovers his unhappy wife took too many sleeping pills again . An accident she later claims , maybe even believes. After getting her stomach pumped, Mildred is as good as new, poor Guy, on the long road of life's journey, every step seems in the wrong direction. Mildred is addicted to wall to wall television, (so are her friends) the fantasy world negates somewhat the pain and emptiness . Happy shows of course, no others will penetrate the dreams of the ladies, reality is not fun . Yet doubts come when a nearly 17 -year- old curious girl, a next door neighbor, starts asking Guy Montag, many uncomfortable questions, Clarisse McClellan admits she's crazy. In the firehouse, Montag spends most of his time playing cards with the fellows, strangely in the future, no women are employed in that noble profession. But plenty of cigarette smoking, they are real firemen . Captain Beatty starts getting suspicious of Montag, the mechanical pet dog, also, it likes killing rats, the four legged kind I mean, and hates our great hero. War is in the air , jet bombers are flying around the skies in circles, atomic bombs threaten to rain down and annihilate the so- called civilization . Not to worry; get back to the TV walls, people and forget. Clarisse mysterious disappears, one ordinary day, she's here, then .... gone...Finally the forbidden fruit's temptation, becomes quite unbearable , and Montag arriving in a house full of illegal , but strangely attractive books, takes a sample. Big horrendous mistake, worse, the owner, an old woman, refuses to leave her place and goes literally up in flames with her beloved "friends". Everyone says it was a shame , but her own fault; no tears should be shed. Afterwards an incident occurs and Guy has to flee for his own life, the relentless mechanical dog is on the hunt. The petrified Montag jumps into the cold river and peacefully, gently floats down the beautiful stream. Getting out soon after , he sees a fire above, with a group of "Hobos" near the water . Is that a flash in the sky ? This warning of a maybe world, in the years to come , is still relevant today , though so much time has passed. SCIENCE FICTION makes for an interesting atmosphere, anything is possible and Bradbury's poetic words dazzle the mind.
March 22, 2018
"No hace falta quemar libros para que una cultura desaparezca. Mucho peor es no leerlos" - Ray Bradbury
Cuesta mucho encontrar en el vasto mundo de la literatura un libro que defienda precisamente al libro como patrimonio cultural de la Humanidad. M谩s all谩 de la distop铆a que encierra, la maestr铆a de Bradbury nos posiciona ante los peligros que a veces significa para el poder el hecho de que la gente "piense" y quiera valerse por s铆 misma. Uno de mis libro preferidos de toda la vida...
Esta era mi peque帽a rese帽a all谩 por el 2015, cuando este libro inolvidable de un tambi茅n inolvidable Ray Bradbury dominaba mi sentidos y se transformaba en uno de mis preferidos de toda la vida. Y a煤n sigue si茅ndolo. A煤n sigue teniendo esa misma vigencia inalterable en m铆.
Es que mi grado de admiraci贸n hacia el viejo Ray sigue en ascenso y no se detendr谩 nunca. Es un escritor del que aprendo. Esa es la palabra. Es un maestro, un abuelo, un profesor y un profeta. Todo lo que irradi贸 en su literatura fue sabidur铆a y genialidad. Sus novelas y cuentos est谩n poblados de ense帽anzas y advertencias. Mensajes y premoniciones. Fue un erudito, un escritor que supo ver mucho antes todas las calamidades que golpearon a la Humanidad sumi茅ndola en un sopor de las que muchas veces le cost贸 salir.
Anticip贸 avances tecnol贸gicos tambi茅n. A partir de libros como "Cr贸nicas marcianas", "El hombre ilustrado" o "Las doradas manzanas del sol" supo advertirnos que el futuro pod铆a transformarse en algo peligroso e inc贸modo.
Al final de esta novela se percibe ese aire enrarecido de una latente cat谩strofe que hace eclosi贸n arrasando una ciudad. 驴Acaso hoy no sentimos esa opresiva preocupaci贸n con las pruebas nucleares de un dictador desequilibrado en la supuestamente remota Corea del Norte?
Esto y lo sab铆a Ray Bradbury. 脡l nos dijo que cometimos el error luego de la segunda bomba mundial y que probablemente podamos volver a cometerlo. Porque somos humanos, falibles, inestables. Hemos atravesado 茅pocas de paz y guerra, pero siempre se han vivido largos a帽os de desigualdad. De poder desmedido sobre gente oprimida y esa disparidad puede terminar mal.
En "Fahrenheit 451" , se nos pinta una sociedad controlada y vigilada. El libro es una de las tres mejores distop铆as que puedan leerse junto con "1984" y "Un mundo feliz". En la contratapa de la novela Kingsley Amis dice que "De entre todos los infiernos del conformismo, Fahrenheit 451 ofrece el retrato m谩s convincente." Disiento a medias con el se帽or Amis.
Creo que ese conformismo est谩 m谩s exacerbado en "Un mundo feliz", en donde la dist贸pica Humanidad de la novela de Huxley est谩 sedada por el soma y la gente no sufre preocupaciones. Es una sociedad controlada por f谩rmacos, y se distancia mucho de la de Ocean铆a, de "1984", en donde vive Winston, all铆 las cosas son m谩s dif铆ciles e incluso mucho m谩s peligrosas a煤n que las de "Fahrenheit 451".
En "Fahrenheit 451", su personaje principal, Guy Montag es parte de un cuerpo de bomberos que no apaga incendios sino se dedica a quemar libros de aquellos descarriados que el sistema no llega a controlar hasta que son denunciados, porque como digo al principio, el poder que controla todo es peligroso que el ser humano piense, se valga por s铆 mismo, se apoye en lo que escritores, fil贸sofos y pensadores y queda evidenciado en el pensamiento del capit谩n Beatty, jefe de Montag y del cuartel de bomberos cuando insidiosamente sostiene: "Un libro es un arma cargada en la casa de al lado. Qu茅malo. Quita el proyectil del arma. Domina la mente del hombre. 驴Qui茅n sabe cu谩l podr铆a ser el objetivo del hombre que leyese mucho? Yo, no lo resistir铆a un minuto."
La frase de Beatty nos refiere hasta ese punto se ha llegado. Sin la violencia explicita ni el totalitarismo desmedido de "1984", la sociedad en esta novela es vigilada, controlada, perseguida y castigada, si es necesario.
Las tres distop铆as tienen algo bien claro en com煤n y son los tres personajes principales de cada una de ellas: Guy Montag en este libro, Winston en "1984" y Bernard Marx en "Un mundo feliz".
驴Por qu茅? Bueno, precisamente por querer salirse del sistema, por rebelarse, por querer demostrar que su realidad es injusta y que no se puede vivir as铆. Se salen de su curso, comienzan a realizar peque帽os actos subversivos, se suman a las minor铆as que resisten estos crueles totalitarismo y como es de prever, son descubiertos.
Montag, al igual que los h茅roes de los otros libros, descubre a la vez lo que deber铆a estar bien pero sigue mal. Su vida est谩 en suspenso. Cuando Clare McLellan, esa chica que conoce y que lo saca de su abotargamiento le hace la simple pregunta "驴Eres feliz?", simplemente no sabe qu茅 responder.
Ha estado viviendo por a帽os con una esposa que es en s铆 pr谩cticamente una desconocida. Mildred es una mujer hueca, vac铆a, ausente, atontada por sus enormes pantallas. Su vida es anodina, supuestamente agradable pero fr铆a, sint茅tica. No tiene ning煤n tipo de acercamiento con Montag y las cosas siguen adelante por su propia inercia. Son dos desconocidos que alguna vez se casaron y viven juntos. Solamente eso.
Durante una de sus salidas con los bomberos, Montag tendr谩 una experiencia en extremo shockeante y a partir de ella no ser谩 el mismo. Prontamente "despertar谩" para acercarse a lo m谩s peligroso e inconveniente que pueda cruzarse en su vida: los libros.
No seguir茅 adentr谩ndome en la historia porque siempre hay lectores que no leyeron "Fahrenheit 451", pero s铆 sostendr茅 lo expuesto al principio de esta rese帽a:
El libro, es uno de los mayores tesoros que la Humanidad ha tenido y tendr谩 por siempre. No importa que alg煤n d铆a sean devorado por las llamas, porque eso ya pas贸 muchas veces, la 煤ltima vez a manos del nazismo.
El libro nunca morir谩, porque es eterno. La defensa de Bradbury en "Fahrenheit 451" es inspiradora, sanadora y edificante. El libro es un objeto precioso, una gema, es ese amigo que nunca decepciona como dec铆a Carlyle.
Un libro nos hace sentir orgullosos como personas lectoras, nos dignifica, nos ense帽a. Para un lector pasar cuidadosamente los dedos por sus p谩ginas es una darle caricia, un mimo. "Los libros van siendo el 煤nico lugar de la casa donde a煤n se puede estar tranquilo", dec铆a don Julio Cort谩zar y no se equivocaba. Aquel que no es lector tal vez no entienda el por qu茅 de tanta pasi贸n, tanto amor, tanta admiraci贸n que los lectores tenemos por los libros.
Bradbury nos dice que en el fondo no importa que desaparezcan mientras nosotros, los lectores los tengamos en la mente y en el coraz贸n y creo que ese es el mensaje que quiere dejarnos al final de esta novela a partir de esos "hombres libros" con los que Montag se encuentra en el bosque luego de su persecuci贸n.
驴Pinta algo inveros铆mil Bradbury en este libro? No. 驴Acaso no han sido muchas personas perseguidas o asesinadas a partir de sus pensamientos, de lo que escribieron o de lo que intentaron cambiar a partir de las l铆neas de un libro? Claro que no.
Siempre, este libro ser谩 uno de mis preferidos porque casualmente es un libro cuyo tema principal trata acerca de la importancia que siempre ha tenido en nosotros.
Todos los d铆as agradezco a Dios el haberme dado esta pasi贸n por los libros y tambi茅n le digo gracias a Ray Bradbury por haberme ense帽ado a ser un mejor lector.
Cuesta mucho encontrar en el vasto mundo de la literatura un libro que defienda precisamente al libro como patrimonio cultural de la Humanidad. M谩s all谩 de la distop铆a que encierra, la maestr铆a de Bradbury nos posiciona ante los peligros que a veces significa para el poder el hecho de que la gente "piense" y quiera valerse por s铆 misma. Uno de mis libro preferidos de toda la vida...
Esta era mi peque帽a rese帽a all谩 por el 2015, cuando este libro inolvidable de un tambi茅n inolvidable Ray Bradbury dominaba mi sentidos y se transformaba en uno de mis preferidos de toda la vida. Y a煤n sigue si茅ndolo. A煤n sigue teniendo esa misma vigencia inalterable en m铆.
Es que mi grado de admiraci贸n hacia el viejo Ray sigue en ascenso y no se detendr谩 nunca. Es un escritor del que aprendo. Esa es la palabra. Es un maestro, un abuelo, un profesor y un profeta. Todo lo que irradi贸 en su literatura fue sabidur铆a y genialidad. Sus novelas y cuentos est谩n poblados de ense帽anzas y advertencias. Mensajes y premoniciones. Fue un erudito, un escritor que supo ver mucho antes todas las calamidades que golpearon a la Humanidad sumi茅ndola en un sopor de las que muchas veces le cost贸 salir.
Anticip贸 avances tecnol贸gicos tambi茅n. A partir de libros como "Cr贸nicas marcianas", "El hombre ilustrado" o "Las doradas manzanas del sol" supo advertirnos que el futuro pod铆a transformarse en algo peligroso e inc贸modo.
Al final de esta novela se percibe ese aire enrarecido de una latente cat谩strofe que hace eclosi贸n arrasando una ciudad. 驴Acaso hoy no sentimos esa opresiva preocupaci贸n con las pruebas nucleares de un dictador desequilibrado en la supuestamente remota Corea del Norte?
Esto y lo sab铆a Ray Bradbury. 脡l nos dijo que cometimos el error luego de la segunda bomba mundial y que probablemente podamos volver a cometerlo. Porque somos humanos, falibles, inestables. Hemos atravesado 茅pocas de paz y guerra, pero siempre se han vivido largos a帽os de desigualdad. De poder desmedido sobre gente oprimida y esa disparidad puede terminar mal.
En "Fahrenheit 451" , se nos pinta una sociedad controlada y vigilada. El libro es una de las tres mejores distop铆as que puedan leerse junto con "1984" y "Un mundo feliz". En la contratapa de la novela Kingsley Amis dice que "De entre todos los infiernos del conformismo, Fahrenheit 451 ofrece el retrato m谩s convincente." Disiento a medias con el se帽or Amis.
Creo que ese conformismo est谩 m谩s exacerbado en "Un mundo feliz", en donde la dist贸pica Humanidad de la novela de Huxley est谩 sedada por el soma y la gente no sufre preocupaciones. Es una sociedad controlada por f谩rmacos, y se distancia mucho de la de Ocean铆a, de "1984", en donde vive Winston, all铆 las cosas son m谩s dif铆ciles e incluso mucho m谩s peligrosas a煤n que las de "Fahrenheit 451".
En "Fahrenheit 451", su personaje principal, Guy Montag es parte de un cuerpo de bomberos que no apaga incendios sino se dedica a quemar libros de aquellos descarriados que el sistema no llega a controlar hasta que son denunciados, porque como digo al principio, el poder que controla todo es peligroso que el ser humano piense, se valga por s铆 mismo, se apoye en lo que escritores, fil贸sofos y pensadores y queda evidenciado en el pensamiento del capit谩n Beatty, jefe de Montag y del cuartel de bomberos cuando insidiosamente sostiene: "Un libro es un arma cargada en la casa de al lado. Qu茅malo. Quita el proyectil del arma. Domina la mente del hombre. 驴Qui茅n sabe cu谩l podr铆a ser el objetivo del hombre que leyese mucho? Yo, no lo resistir铆a un minuto."
La frase de Beatty nos refiere hasta ese punto se ha llegado. Sin la violencia explicita ni el totalitarismo desmedido de "1984", la sociedad en esta novela es vigilada, controlada, perseguida y castigada, si es necesario.
Las tres distop铆as tienen algo bien claro en com煤n y son los tres personajes principales de cada una de ellas: Guy Montag en este libro, Winston en "1984" y Bernard Marx en "Un mundo feliz".
驴Por qu茅? Bueno, precisamente por querer salirse del sistema, por rebelarse, por querer demostrar que su realidad es injusta y que no se puede vivir as铆. Se salen de su curso, comienzan a realizar peque帽os actos subversivos, se suman a las minor铆as que resisten estos crueles totalitarismo y como es de prever, son descubiertos.
Montag, al igual que los h茅roes de los otros libros, descubre a la vez lo que deber铆a estar bien pero sigue mal. Su vida est谩 en suspenso. Cuando Clare McLellan, esa chica que conoce y que lo saca de su abotargamiento le hace la simple pregunta "驴Eres feliz?", simplemente no sabe qu茅 responder.
Ha estado viviendo por a帽os con una esposa que es en s铆 pr谩cticamente una desconocida. Mildred es una mujer hueca, vac铆a, ausente, atontada por sus enormes pantallas. Su vida es anodina, supuestamente agradable pero fr铆a, sint茅tica. No tiene ning煤n tipo de acercamiento con Montag y las cosas siguen adelante por su propia inercia. Son dos desconocidos que alguna vez se casaron y viven juntos. Solamente eso.
Durante una de sus salidas con los bomberos, Montag tendr谩 una experiencia en extremo shockeante y a partir de ella no ser谩 el mismo. Prontamente "despertar谩" para acercarse a lo m谩s peligroso e inconveniente que pueda cruzarse en su vida: los libros.
No seguir茅 adentr谩ndome en la historia porque siempre hay lectores que no leyeron "Fahrenheit 451", pero s铆 sostendr茅 lo expuesto al principio de esta rese帽a:
El libro, es uno de los mayores tesoros que la Humanidad ha tenido y tendr谩 por siempre. No importa que alg煤n d铆a sean devorado por las llamas, porque eso ya pas贸 muchas veces, la 煤ltima vez a manos del nazismo.
El libro nunca morir谩, porque es eterno. La defensa de Bradbury en "Fahrenheit 451" es inspiradora, sanadora y edificante. El libro es un objeto precioso, una gema, es ese amigo que nunca decepciona como dec铆a Carlyle.
Un libro nos hace sentir orgullosos como personas lectoras, nos dignifica, nos ense帽a. Para un lector pasar cuidadosamente los dedos por sus p谩ginas es una darle caricia, un mimo. "Los libros van siendo el 煤nico lugar de la casa donde a煤n se puede estar tranquilo", dec铆a don Julio Cort谩zar y no se equivocaba. Aquel que no es lector tal vez no entienda el por qu茅 de tanta pasi贸n, tanto amor, tanta admiraci贸n que los lectores tenemos por los libros.
Bradbury nos dice que en el fondo no importa que desaparezcan mientras nosotros, los lectores los tengamos en la mente y en el coraz贸n y creo que ese es el mensaje que quiere dejarnos al final de esta novela a partir de esos "hombres libros" con los que Montag se encuentra en el bosque luego de su persecuci贸n.
驴Pinta algo inveros铆mil Bradbury en este libro? No. 驴Acaso no han sido muchas personas perseguidas o asesinadas a partir de sus pensamientos, de lo que escribieron o de lo que intentaron cambiar a partir de las l铆neas de un libro? Claro que no.
Siempre, este libro ser谩 uno de mis preferidos porque casualmente es un libro cuyo tema principal trata acerca de la importancia que siempre ha tenido en nosotros.
Todos los d铆as agradezco a Dios el haberme dado esta pasi贸n por los libros y tambi茅n le digo gracias a Ray Bradbury por haberme ense帽ado a ser un mejor lector.
March 4, 2017
This was my first Ray Bradbury book. Do you know - that with 1, 117, 082 ratings, and
28, 668 reviews-I didn't have a clue what to expect from this book? I may have been the only person living under a rock - down deep beneath the earth -who knew nothing about this story! My Goodness .......
"I CANT IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT BOOKS!!!!!"
I have in my hands a copy of the 60th Anniversary Edition. Neil Gaiman wrote the Introduction.... and really excellent I might add! Just beautiful introduction about Fahrenheit 451 being speculative fiction....."if this goes on......." story. Ray Bradbury was writing about his present, which is our past. He was warning us about things; some of those things are obvious, and some of them, half a century later, are harder to see.
.....First: Many readers say 'that readers', should read this book: I agree!
.....Fireman no longer put out fires-- but instead burn houses that have books inside.
.....The prose is beautiful- powerful - a tribute to the value of books.
.....Ray Bradbury created a world where watching TV is what is consider socializing.
.....TV is a baby sitter for busy parents. Sounds like present day to me! This is still a concern!!!
.....One night -one fireman - Guy Montag - meets a young almost 17 year old girl, Clarisse McClellan, who asks Montag, "Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"
He laughed. "That's against the law!" But soon, Montag begins to question the
forbidden and begins to steal books. ..... As the story unfolds, Montag bumps up against challenges - scary situations - sad and dangerous situations---
This is an INSANE WORLD --- played out to extremes --- but frightening that it resembles much of our world today. -- and that is even 'more' frightening!
Towards the end of the copy of this 60th Anniversary edition is "The Story of Fahrenheit 451". I found it fascinating. The story about renting typewriters at UCLA library - paying a dime for every half hour to write this story -- had me laughing. ( sorry for laughing at Bradbury's suffering when the typewriter would jam.....but I think his story will be helpful to me on those days when I have computer breakdowns-- in the COMFORT of my own home!!!!
Fabulous- - great excerpts on every page - A STAND FOR INTOLERANCE!!!
28, 668 reviews-I didn't have a clue what to expect from this book? I may have been the only person living under a rock - down deep beneath the earth -who knew nothing about this story! My Goodness .......
"I CANT IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT BOOKS!!!!!"
I have in my hands a copy of the 60th Anniversary Edition. Neil Gaiman wrote the Introduction.... and really excellent I might add! Just beautiful introduction about Fahrenheit 451 being speculative fiction....."if this goes on......." story. Ray Bradbury was writing about his present, which is our past. He was warning us about things; some of those things are obvious, and some of them, half a century later, are harder to see.
.....First: Many readers say 'that readers', should read this book: I agree!
.....Fireman no longer put out fires-- but instead burn houses that have books inside.
.....The prose is beautiful- powerful - a tribute to the value of books.
.....Ray Bradbury created a world where watching TV is what is consider socializing.
.....TV is a baby sitter for busy parents. Sounds like present day to me! This is still a concern!!!
.....One night -one fireman - Guy Montag - meets a young almost 17 year old girl, Clarisse McClellan, who asks Montag, "Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"
He laughed. "That's against the law!" But soon, Montag begins to question the
forbidden and begins to steal books. ..... As the story unfolds, Montag bumps up against challenges - scary situations - sad and dangerous situations---
This is an INSANE WORLD --- played out to extremes --- but frightening that it resembles much of our world today. -- and that is even 'more' frightening!
Towards the end of the copy of this 60th Anniversary edition is "The Story of Fahrenheit 451". I found it fascinating. The story about renting typewriters at UCLA library - paying a dime for every half hour to write this story -- had me laughing. ( sorry for laughing at Bradbury's suffering when the typewriter would jam.....but I think his story will be helpful to me on those days when I have computer breakdowns-- in the COMFORT of my own home!!!!
Fabulous- - great excerpts on every page - A STAND FOR INTOLERANCE!!!
December 29, 2024
This book made me realize I have not taken advantage of the gift that is public libraries. So much information and knowledge at our fingertips for free in an age where everything is behind a paywall
I鈥檝e been thinking about how interesting it is that at some point in time, maybe when I finally was out of school at 21, maybe 8 months ago, I don鈥檛 know, I had a complete change of opinion on the importance of reading. from a young student just trying to score well on a test using short term memorization alone, to adult me trying to drink up and permanently store the heart and essence of books like Fahrenheit 451 in my brain forever. I didn鈥檛 take this type of reading seriously in Lit classes and never stopped to question why certain books had been hand selected for us to read and study. Never too late to start reading critically, as long as you start
My favorite lines from the Exiled Professor Granger: 鈥淵ou鈥檙e not important. You鈥檙e not anything. Someday the load we carry with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand a long time ago, we didn鈥檛 use what we got out of them鈥e鈥檙e going to meet a lot of lonely people soon, and when they ask us what we鈥檙e doing, you can say: We鈥檙e remembering.鈥�
and also: 鈥渟tuff your eyes with wonder. Live as if you鈥檇 drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. it鈥檚 more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.鈥�
鈥淭he magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.鈥�
I also loved (and grimaced at) the completely accurate prediction on Bradbury鈥檚 behalf of a mindless consumerist society incapable of saving itself from looming nuclear annihilation. 鈥淲hirl man鈥檚 mind around so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting thought!鈥� I have to delete tiktok and instagram FREEE MEEEEEEEE
I鈥檝e been thinking about how interesting it is that at some point in time, maybe when I finally was out of school at 21, maybe 8 months ago, I don鈥檛 know, I had a complete change of opinion on the importance of reading. from a young student just trying to score well on a test using short term memorization alone, to adult me trying to drink up and permanently store the heart and essence of books like Fahrenheit 451 in my brain forever. I didn鈥檛 take this type of reading seriously in Lit classes and never stopped to question why certain books had been hand selected for us to read and study. Never too late to start reading critically, as long as you start
My favorite lines from the Exiled Professor Granger: 鈥淵ou鈥檙e not important. You鈥檙e not anything. Someday the load we carry with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand a long time ago, we didn鈥檛 use what we got out of them鈥e鈥檙e going to meet a lot of lonely people soon, and when they ask us what we鈥檙e doing, you can say: We鈥檙e remembering.鈥�
and also: 鈥渟tuff your eyes with wonder. Live as if you鈥檇 drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. it鈥檚 more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.鈥�
鈥淭he magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.鈥�
I also loved (and grimaced at) the completely accurate prediction on Bradbury鈥檚 behalf of a mindless consumerist society incapable of saving itself from looming nuclear annihilation. 鈥淲hirl man鈥檚 mind around so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting thought!鈥� I have to delete tiktok and instagram FREEE MEEEEEEEE
May 28, 2020
~桅伪蟻蔚谓维喂蟿 451~
"畏 胃蔚蟻渭慰魏蟻伪蟽委伪 蟽蟿畏谓 慰蟺慰委伪 蟿慰 蠂伪蟻蟿委 蟿蠅谓 尾喂尾位委蠅谓 蟺喂维谓蔚喂 蠁蠅蟿喂维 魏伪喂 魏伪委纬蔚蟿伪喂..."
螣 维谓胃蟻蠅蟺慰蟼 蟿蠅谓 尾喂尾位喂慰胃畏魏蠋谓,伪蠀蟿慰蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿畏蟻委味蔚蟿伪喂 慰 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪蟼 伪蠀蟿蠈蟼 渭蔚 蟿畏谓 伪蟺委蟽蟿蔚蠀蟿畏 未喂慰蟻伪蟿喂魏蠈蟿畏蟿伪. 螒蠀蟿蠈蟼 慰 未蠀蟽蟿慰蟺喂魏蠈蟼 蔚蟺伪谓伪蟽蟿维蟿畏蟼 苇纬蟻伪蠄蔚 苇谓伪 蟿蠈蟽慰
蠁伪谓蟿伪蟽蟿喂魏蠈-伪位位畏纬慰蟻喂魏蠈 伪蟻喂蟽蟿慰蠉蟻纬畏渭伪 蟺慰蠀 魏伪蟿伪位萎纬蔚喂 谓伪 蔚委谓伪喂 蔚蟺喂位萎蠄喂渭伪 蟻蔚伪位喂蟽蟿喂魏蠈 魏伪喂 蟿蟻慰渭伪魏蟿喂魏维 未喂伪蠂蟻慰谓喂魏蠈.
螠喂伪 伪蠁萎纬畏蟽畏 蟽蠀谓伪蟻蟺伪蟽蟿喂魏萎,纬蔚渭维蟿畏 伪谓伪蟿蟻慰蟺苇蟼 魏伪喂 伪谓伪蟿蟻喂蠂喂伪蟽蟿喂魏苇蟼 蔚魏蠁维谓蟽蔚喂蟼 蟿畏蟼 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺喂谓畏蟼 蟺慰蟻蔚委伪蟼 魏伪喂 蔚尉苇位喂尉畏蟼, 魏伪喂 苇谓伪 蟿苇位慰蟼 胃位喂尾蔚蟻维 蔚位蟺喂未慰蠁蠈蟻慰 魏伪喂 蟺慰喂畏蟿喂魏维 伪谓蟿喂蟽蠀渭尾伪蟿喂魏蠈.
危蠉纬蠂蟻慰谓畏,蔚尉蔚位喂纬渭苇谓畏 渭慰蟻蠁萎 味蠅萎蟼 魏伪喂 伪谓胃蟻蠅蟺委谓蠅谓 蟽蠂苇蟽蔚蠅谓.
螝蠉蟻喂慰 蟽蠀蟽蟿伪蟿喂魏蠈 蟿畏蟼 蔚蠀蟿蠀蠂委伪蟼 蟿蠅谓 渭蔚蟿伪位位伪纬渭苇谓蠅谓 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺蠅谓; 螚 伪蠀蟿伪蟺维蟿畏. 螚 魏蔚谓慰未慰尉委伪. 螚 维纬谓慰喂伪 蟺慰蠀 蟽蔚 蟺蟻慰蠂蠅蟻畏渭苇谓慰 尾伪胃渭蠈 胃蔚蠅蟻蔚委蟿伪喂 芦伪蟻蔚蟿萎禄.
螚 谓慰蟽畏蟻蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟽蔚 蟺谓蔚蠉渭伪 魏伪喂 蟽蠋渭伪. 韦伪 畏位委胃喂伪 魏慰位位畏渭苇谓伪 渭蠀伪位维 蟺慰蠀 蟺伪蠉慰蠀谓 谓伪 蟽魏苇蠁蟿慰谓蟿伪喂 纬喂伪 谓伪 渭畏谓 蠂伪位维蟽慰蠀谓 蟿畏谓 蔚喂未蠀位位喂伪魏萎 蔚喂魏慰谓喂魏萎 蔚蠀未伪喂渭慰谓委伪 蟿慰蠀蟼.
螤蟻蠅蟿伪纬蠅谓喂蟽蟿萎蟼 慰 蟺蠀蟻慰谓蠈渭慰蟼 螕魏维喂 螠蠈谓蟿伪纬魏,慰 慰蟺慰委慰蟼 位蔚喂蟿慰蠀蟻纬蔚委 渭畏蠂伪谓喂魏维 魏伪喂 蟽蟺伪蟽渭蠅未喂魏维 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 渭谓萎渭畏 魏伪喂 伪喂蟽胃萎渭伪蟿伪.
螠苇蟽伪 蟽蟿慰 蟽蟺委蟿喂 蟿慰蠀 蠀蟺维蟻蠂慰蠀谓 蠀蟺蔚蟻蟽蠉纬蠂蟻慰谓蔚蟼 蔚纬魏伪蟿伪蟽蟿维蟽蔚喂蟼 伪蟺慰蠂伪蠉谓蠅蟽畏蟼 魏伪喂 伪蠀蟿慰渭伪蟿慰蟺慰委畏蟽畏蟼 魏伪喂 渭喂伪 蟽蠉味蠀纬慰蟼 蟺慰蠀 蟺伪蟻伪位畏蟻蔚委 伪谓维渭蔚蟽伪 蟽蟿畏谓 蔚喂魏慰谓喂魏萎 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿喂魏蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟺慰蠀 蟿畏蟼 蟺蟻慰蟽蠁苇蟻慰蠀谓 慰喂 纬喂纬伪谓蟿慰慰胃蠈谓蔚蟼 尾委谓蟿蔚慰蟽魏慰蠀蟺喂未喂蠋谓 魏伪喂 蟿伪 蠀蟺谓蠅蟿喂魏维 蠂维蟺喂伪.
螆尉蠅 伪蟺慰 蟿慰 蟽蟺委蟿喂 蔚委谓伪喂 蔚蟺喂蠁慰蟻蟿喂蟽渭苇谓慰蟼 渭蔚 蟿慰 蟽蟺慰蠀未伪委慰 魏伪胃萎魏慰谓 蟿畏蟼 蔚蟻纬伪蟽委伪蟼 蟿慰蠀: 螝螒螜螘螜 螔螜螔螞螜螒.
螠蔚 伪蠀蟿蠈谓 蟿慰谓 蟿蟻蠈蟺慰 未喂伪蟿畏蟻蔚委蟿伪喂 畏 蟿维尉畏 魏伪喂 畏 伪蟻渭慰谓委伪.
韦伪 尾喂尾位委伪 纬蔚谓喂魏维 魏伪喂 魏维胃蔚 蔚委未慰蠀蟼,蠁喂位慰蟽慰蠁喂魏维,蔚蟺喂蟽蟿畏渭慰谓喂魏维,蟺慰喂畏蟿喂魏维,
位慰纬慰蟿蔚蠂谓喂魏维,
胃蚁畏蟽魏蔚蠀蟿喂魏维
蟽蔚 魏维谓慰蠀谓 谓伪 蟽魏苇蠁蟿蔚蟽伪喂.
螁蟻伪 蟽蔚 魏维谓慰蠀谓 谓伪 蠀蟺维蟻蠂蔚喂蟼. 螡伪 蟺蟻慰尾位畏渭伪蟿委味蔚蟽伪喂. 螡伪 慰谓蔚喂蟻蔚蠉蔚蟽伪喂. 螡伪 位蠀蟺维蟽伪喂. 螡伪 蔚尉蔚位委蟽蟽蔚蟽伪喂. 螡伪 伪蠀蟿慰未畏渭喂慰蠀蟻纬蔚委蟽伪喂. 螡伪 蟽蠀纬魏蟻委谓蔚喂蟼. 螡伪 尾位苇蟺蔚喂蟼.
螘魏蟺苇渭蟺慰蠀谓 蟿慰 伪蟺蠈位蠀蟿慰 蠁蠅蟼.
韦蠈蟽慰 伪蟺蠈位蠀蟿慰 魏伪喂 位蔚蠀魏蠈 蟺慰蠀 蟺慰谓维蟼 伪蟺慰 蟿畏谓 伪魏蟿喂谓慰尾慰位委伪.
螘蟺慰渭苇谓蠅蟼 慰喂 伪谓蔚尉苇位蔚纬魏蟿蔚蟼 魏蠀尾蔚蟻谓萎蟽蔚喂蟼 纬喂伪 谓伪 蟺蟻慰蟽蟿伪蟿苇蠄慰蠀谓 蟿慰蠀蟼 蟺慰位委蟿蔚蟼 蟿慰蠀蟼 伪蟺慰 蠈位伪 蟿伪 尾维蟽伪谓伪 魏伪喂 蟿慰蠀蟼 蟺蠈谓慰蠀蟼 伪蟻蠂委味慰蠀谓 魏伪蟿伪蟻蠂维蟼 谓伪 位慰纬慰魏蟻委谓慰蠀谓.
螝伪蟿维 未蔚蠉蟿蔚蟻慰谓,蟺蟻慰蟽蠁苇蟻慰蠀谓 伪蠁蔚喂未蠋蟼 胃蔚维渭伪蟿伪,渭慰蠀蟽喂魏萎,未喂伪蠁畏渭委蟽蔚喂蟼,蟺蔚蟻喂慰未喂魏维 魏伪喂 蔚魏蟺慰渭蟺苇蟼 蟽蟿伪 螠螠螘 蟺慰蠀 蠂伪位伪蟻蠋谓慰蠀谓 蟿慰谓 魏蠈蟽渭慰 魏伪喂 蠁蠀蟽喂魏维 蟺蔚蟻喂慰蟻委味慰蠀谓 蟿畏 未畏渭喂慰蠀蟻纬喂魏蠈蟿畏蟿伪,蟿畏 蠁伪谓蟿伪蟽委伪 魏伪喂 蟿畏谓 蔚位蔚蠀胃蔚蟻委伪.
螖蔚谓 蠀蟺维蟻蠂慰蠀谓 伪蟿慰渭喂魏维 未喂魏伪喂蠋渭伪蟿伪-未蔚谓 蠀蟺维蟻蠂慰蠀谓 蟺蟻慰尾位萎渭伪蟿伪.
韦蠈蟽慰 伪蟺位维.
螝伪蟿伪蟺委蔚蟽畏- 维纬谓慰喂伪- 伪蠀蟿伪蟺维蟿畏-蠁蠅蟿喂维.
螝伪委谓蔚 蟿伪 尾喂尾位委伪 纬喂伪蟿委 蔚委谓伪喂 蔚蟺喂魏委谓未蠀谓伪 纬喂伪 蟿畏 未畏渭蠈蟽喂伪 蠀纬蔚委伪.
螌蟽慰喂 位委纬慰喂 伪蟻谓慰蠉谓蟿伪喂 谓伪 伪蟺慰蠂蠅蟻喂蟽蟿慰蠉谓 蟿伪 尾喂尾位喂伪 蟿慰蠀蟼 魏伪委纬慰谓蟿伪喂 渭伪味委 蟿慰蠀蟼 魏伪喂 蟿慰 魏伪魏蠈 蟽蟿伪渭伪蟿维蔚喂 蔚魏蔚委.
螣 螕魏维喂 苇蟺蔚喂蟿伪 伪蟺慰 渭喂伪 蟿蠀蠂伪委伪 纬谓蠅蟻喂渭委伪 渭蔚 蔚谓伪 谓蔚伪蟻蠈 魏慰蟻委蟿蟽喂 蟺慰蠀 伪纬伪蟺维蔚喂 蟿慰 未喂伪尾伪蟽渭伪 魏伪喂 纬喂鈥櫸毕呄勏� 胃蔚蠅蟻蔚委蟿伪喂 蠄蠀蠂慰蟺伪胃萎蟼 魏伪喂 魏维蟺慰喂慰谓 畏位喂魏喂蠅渭苇谓慰 魏伪胃畏纬畏蟿萎 蟺慰蠀 未喂伪蟿畏蟻蔚委 蟿畏 尾喂尾位喂慰胃萎魏畏 蟿慰蠀 蟽蟿慰 渭蠀伪位蠈 蟿慰蠀, 伪位位维味蔚喂 蟻喂味喂魏维 蟿蟻蠈蟺慰 蟽魏苇蠄畏蟼 魏伪喂 味蠅萎蟼.
危蔚 伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿慰 蔚魏蟺位畏魏蟿喂魏蠈 伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽渭伪 伪谓伪未蔚喂魏谓蠉蔚蟿伪喂 蟿慰 慰位蠈位蔚蠀魏慰 蠁蠅蟼 蟿蠅谓 尾喂尾位委蠅谓 渭苇蟽伪 伪蟺慰 蟿畏谓 魏伪蟿维渭伪蠀蟻畏 蟽蟿维蠂蟿畏 蟿慰蠀蟼.
螞委纬慰喂 伪谓蟿苇蠂慰蠀谓 蟿慰 蔚魏蟿蠀蠁位蠅蟿喂魏蠈 蠁蠅蟼.
螤慰位位慰委 胃伪蠀渭维味慰蠀谓 蟿畏 蠁位蠈纬伪 蟿畏蟼 魏伪蠉蟽畏蟼 蟽蟿慰蠀蟼 451 尾伪胃渭慰蠉蟼 蟿畏蟼 魏位委渭伪魏伪蟼 桅伪蟻蔚谓维喂蟿,伪蠁慰蠉 畏 蟺谓蔚蠀渭伪蟿喂魏萎 蟿慰蠀蟼 伪尾蔚位蟿畏蟻委伪 喂魏伪谓慰蟺慰喂蔚委蟿伪喂 渭蔚 维蟻蟿慰谓 魏伪喂 胃苇伪渭伪.
螣喂 蔚位维蠂喂蟽蟿慰喂 未喂伪蟽蠋蟽蟿蔚蟼 尾喂尾位委蠅谓 魏伪喂 蟺慰位喂蟿喂蟽渭蠋谓 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺伪蟻委蔚蟼 魏伪喂 伪蟺慰未喂蠅纬渭苇谓慰喂 伪蟺慰 蟿慰蠀蟼 谓慰蟽畏蟻维 畏位委胃喂慰蠀蟼 魏伪蟿伪蟽魏蔚蠀伪蟽渭苇谓慰蠀蟼 魏伪喂 蟽蠉纬蠂蟻慰谓伪 魏位蠅谓慰蟺慰喂畏渭苇谓慰蠀蟼 蟺慰位委蟿蔚蟼.
韦慰 蟽慰魏伪蟻喂蟽蟿喂魏蠈 渭萎谓蠀渭伪 蟿慰蠀 尾喂尾位委慰蠀 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺蠅蟼 畏 伪蟺慰谓慰渭喂渭慰蟺慰委畏蟽畏 蟿蠅谓 尾喂尾位委蠅谓 未蔚谓 尉蔚魏委谓畏蟽蔚 渭蔚蟿维 伪蟺慰 魏维蟺慰喂伪 魏蠀尾蔚蟻谓畏蟿喂魏萎 未喂伪魏蠉蟻畏尉畏 萎 蟺慰位喂蟿喂魏萎 蔚蟺喂尾慰位萎.
韦慰 蠁伪喂谓蠈渭蔚谓慰 尉蔚魏委谓畏蟽蔚 渭蔚蟿维 伪蟺慰 蟿慰 蟽蠀谓未蠀伪蟽渭蠈 蟿蔚蠂谓喂魏萎蟼 蔚尉苇位喂尉畏蟼 蟿蠅谓 渭苇蟽蠅谓, 蠂蔚喂蟻伪纬蠋纬畏蟽畏蟼 蟿蠅谓 渭伪味蠋谓 魏伪喂 蠁伪谓伪蟿喂蟽渭蠈 蟿蠅谓 蔚魏维蟽蟿慰蟿蔚 渭蔚喂慰谓慰蟿萎蟿蠅谓.
螣喂 魏蠀尾蔚蟻谓萎蟽蔚喂蟼 尾慰萎胃畏蟽伪谓 尾蔚尾伪委蠅蟼 渭蔚 维蟺位蔚蟿畏 蔚蠀蠂伪蟻委蟽蟿畏蟽畏 伪位位维 未蔚谓 伪蟺伪纬蠈蟻蔚蠄伪谓 蟿伪 尾喂尾位委伪.
螣喂 委未喂慰喂 慰喂 维谓胃蟻蠅蟺慰喂,渭蔚 蠀蟺慰尾慰畏胃慰蠉渭蔚谓畏 尾慰蠉位畏蟽畏 苇蟺伪蠄伪谓 谓伪 未喂伪尾维味慰蠀谓 纬喂伪 伪蟺蠈位伪蠀蟽畏 魏伪喂 纬喂伪 纬谓蠋蟽畏 魏伪喂 魏伪位位喂苇蟻纬蔚喂伪 魏伪喂 蟺谓蔚蠀渭伪蟿喂魏维 蟿伪尉委未喂伪.
螠蠈谓慰喂 蟿慰蠀蟼 蟺蟻慰蟿委渭畏蟽伪谓 蟿畏谓 蔚蟺喂尾伪位位蠈渭蔚谓畏 魏伪喂 蟺蟻慰尾伪位位蠈渭蔚谓畏 蠄蠀蠂伪纬蠅纬委伪 渭蔚 渭畏未苇谓 未蔚委魏蟿畏 蟺谓蔚蠀渭伪蟿喂魏蠈蟿畏蟿伪蟼.
螠蠈谓慰喂 蟿慰蠀蟼 蠀蟺慰蟿委渭畏蟽伪谓 魏伪喂 蔚尉维位蔚喂蠄伪谓 蟿伪 尾喂尾位委伪.
[螕喂伪 谓伪 渭畏 纬委谓蔚喂 蟺慰蟿苇 蟺喂伪 魏伪谓蔚委蟼 芦蟿慰 胃蠉渭伪禄 蔚谓蠈蟼 蟺慰位蠀未喂伪尾伪蟽渭苇谓慰蠀 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺慰蠀...].
螤慰位位维 苇蠂慰蠀谓 未蔚喂 蟿伪 渭维蟿喂伪 渭慰蠀, 渭伪 伪蠀蟿蠈 渭慰蠀 蠁苇蟻谓蔚喂 蟿蟻蠈渭慰....
螝伪位萎 螒螡螒螕螡惟危螚!!!
"畏 胃蔚蟻渭慰魏蟻伪蟽委伪 蟽蟿畏谓 慰蟺慰委伪 蟿慰 蠂伪蟻蟿委 蟿蠅谓 尾喂尾位委蠅谓 蟺喂维谓蔚喂 蠁蠅蟿喂维 魏伪喂 魏伪委纬蔚蟿伪喂..."
螣 维谓胃蟻蠅蟺慰蟼 蟿蠅谓 尾喂尾位喂慰胃畏魏蠋谓,伪蠀蟿慰蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿畏蟻委味蔚蟿伪喂 慰 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪蟼 伪蠀蟿蠈蟼 渭蔚 蟿畏谓 伪蟺委蟽蟿蔚蠀蟿畏 未喂慰蟻伪蟿喂魏蠈蟿畏蟿伪. 螒蠀蟿蠈蟼 慰 未蠀蟽蟿慰蟺喂魏蠈蟼 蔚蟺伪谓伪蟽蟿维蟿畏蟼 苇纬蟻伪蠄蔚 苇谓伪 蟿蠈蟽慰
蠁伪谓蟿伪蟽蟿喂魏蠈-伪位位畏纬慰蟻喂魏蠈 伪蟻喂蟽蟿慰蠉蟻纬畏渭伪 蟺慰蠀 魏伪蟿伪位萎纬蔚喂 谓伪 蔚委谓伪喂 蔚蟺喂位萎蠄喂渭伪 蟻蔚伪位喂蟽蟿喂魏蠈 魏伪喂 蟿蟻慰渭伪魏蟿喂魏维 未喂伪蠂蟻慰谓喂魏蠈.
螠喂伪 伪蠁萎纬畏蟽畏 蟽蠀谓伪蟻蟺伪蟽蟿喂魏萎,纬蔚渭维蟿畏 伪谓伪蟿蟻慰蟺苇蟼 魏伪喂 伪谓伪蟿蟻喂蠂喂伪蟽蟿喂魏苇蟼 蔚魏蠁维谓蟽蔚喂蟼 蟿畏蟼 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺喂谓畏蟼 蟺慰蟻蔚委伪蟼 魏伪喂 蔚尉苇位喂尉畏蟼, 魏伪喂 苇谓伪 蟿苇位慰蟼 胃位喂尾蔚蟻维 蔚位蟺喂未慰蠁蠈蟻慰 魏伪喂 蟺慰喂畏蟿喂魏维 伪谓蟿喂蟽蠀渭尾伪蟿喂魏蠈.
危蠉纬蠂蟻慰谓畏,蔚尉蔚位喂纬渭苇谓畏 渭慰蟻蠁萎 味蠅萎蟼 魏伪喂 伪谓胃蟻蠅蟺委谓蠅谓 蟽蠂苇蟽蔚蠅谓.
螝蠉蟻喂慰 蟽蠀蟽蟿伪蟿喂魏蠈 蟿畏蟼 蔚蠀蟿蠀蠂委伪蟼 蟿蠅谓 渭蔚蟿伪位位伪纬渭苇谓蠅谓 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺蠅谓; 螚 伪蠀蟿伪蟺维蟿畏. 螚 魏蔚谓慰未慰尉委伪. 螚 维纬谓慰喂伪 蟺慰蠀 蟽蔚 蟺蟻慰蠂蠅蟻畏渭苇谓慰 尾伪胃渭蠈 胃蔚蠅蟻蔚委蟿伪喂 芦伪蟻蔚蟿萎禄.
螚 谓慰蟽畏蟻蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟽蔚 蟺谓蔚蠉渭伪 魏伪喂 蟽蠋渭伪. 韦伪 畏位委胃喂伪 魏慰位位畏渭苇谓伪 渭蠀伪位维 蟺慰蠀 蟺伪蠉慰蠀谓 谓伪 蟽魏苇蠁蟿慰谓蟿伪喂 纬喂伪 谓伪 渭畏谓 蠂伪位维蟽慰蠀谓 蟿畏谓 蔚喂未蠀位位喂伪魏萎 蔚喂魏慰谓喂魏萎 蔚蠀未伪喂渭慰谓委伪 蟿慰蠀蟼.
螤蟻蠅蟿伪纬蠅谓喂蟽蟿萎蟼 慰 蟺蠀蟻慰谓蠈渭慰蟼 螕魏维喂 螠蠈谓蟿伪纬魏,慰 慰蟺慰委慰蟼 位蔚喂蟿慰蠀蟻纬蔚委 渭畏蠂伪谓喂魏维 魏伪喂 蟽蟺伪蟽渭蠅未喂魏维 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 渭谓萎渭畏 魏伪喂 伪喂蟽胃萎渭伪蟿伪.
螠苇蟽伪 蟽蟿慰 蟽蟺委蟿喂 蟿慰蠀 蠀蟺维蟻蠂慰蠀谓 蠀蟺蔚蟻蟽蠉纬蠂蟻慰谓蔚蟼 蔚纬魏伪蟿伪蟽蟿维蟽蔚喂蟼 伪蟺慰蠂伪蠉谓蠅蟽畏蟼 魏伪喂 伪蠀蟿慰渭伪蟿慰蟺慰委畏蟽畏蟼 魏伪喂 渭喂伪 蟽蠉味蠀纬慰蟼 蟺慰蠀 蟺伪蟻伪位畏蟻蔚委 伪谓维渭蔚蟽伪 蟽蟿畏谓 蔚喂魏慰谓喂魏萎 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿喂魏蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟺慰蠀 蟿畏蟼 蟺蟻慰蟽蠁苇蟻慰蠀谓 慰喂 纬喂纬伪谓蟿慰慰胃蠈谓蔚蟼 尾委谓蟿蔚慰蟽魏慰蠀蟺喂未喂蠋谓 魏伪喂 蟿伪 蠀蟺谓蠅蟿喂魏维 蠂维蟺喂伪.
螆尉蠅 伪蟺慰 蟿慰 蟽蟺委蟿喂 蔚委谓伪喂 蔚蟺喂蠁慰蟻蟿喂蟽渭苇谓慰蟼 渭蔚 蟿慰 蟽蟺慰蠀未伪委慰 魏伪胃萎魏慰谓 蟿畏蟼 蔚蟻纬伪蟽委伪蟼 蟿慰蠀: 螝螒螜螘螜 螔螜螔螞螜螒.
螠蔚 伪蠀蟿蠈谓 蟿慰谓 蟿蟻蠈蟺慰 未喂伪蟿畏蟻蔚委蟿伪喂 畏 蟿维尉畏 魏伪喂 畏 伪蟻渭慰谓委伪.
韦伪 尾喂尾位委伪 纬蔚谓喂魏维 魏伪喂 魏维胃蔚 蔚委未慰蠀蟼,蠁喂位慰蟽慰蠁喂魏维,蔚蟺喂蟽蟿畏渭慰谓喂魏维,蟺慰喂畏蟿喂魏维,
位慰纬慰蟿蔚蠂谓喂魏维,
胃蚁畏蟽魏蔚蠀蟿喂魏维
蟽蔚 魏维谓慰蠀谓 谓伪 蟽魏苇蠁蟿蔚蟽伪喂.
螁蟻伪 蟽蔚 魏维谓慰蠀谓 谓伪 蠀蟺维蟻蠂蔚喂蟼. 螡伪 蟺蟻慰尾位畏渭伪蟿委味蔚蟽伪喂. 螡伪 慰谓蔚喂蟻蔚蠉蔚蟽伪喂. 螡伪 位蠀蟺维蟽伪喂. 螡伪 蔚尉蔚位委蟽蟽蔚蟽伪喂. 螡伪 伪蠀蟿慰未畏渭喂慰蠀蟻纬蔚委蟽伪喂. 螡伪 蟽蠀纬魏蟻委谓蔚喂蟼. 螡伪 尾位苇蟺蔚喂蟼.
螘魏蟺苇渭蟺慰蠀谓 蟿慰 伪蟺蠈位蠀蟿慰 蠁蠅蟼.
韦蠈蟽慰 伪蟺蠈位蠀蟿慰 魏伪喂 位蔚蠀魏蠈 蟺慰蠀 蟺慰谓维蟼 伪蟺慰 蟿畏谓 伪魏蟿喂谓慰尾慰位委伪.
螘蟺慰渭苇谓蠅蟼 慰喂 伪谓蔚尉苇位蔚纬魏蟿蔚蟼 魏蠀尾蔚蟻谓萎蟽蔚喂蟼 纬喂伪 谓伪 蟺蟻慰蟽蟿伪蟿苇蠄慰蠀谓 蟿慰蠀蟼 蟺慰位委蟿蔚蟼 蟿慰蠀蟼 伪蟺慰 蠈位伪 蟿伪 尾维蟽伪谓伪 魏伪喂 蟿慰蠀蟼 蟺蠈谓慰蠀蟼 伪蟻蠂委味慰蠀谓 魏伪蟿伪蟻蠂维蟼 谓伪 位慰纬慰魏蟻委谓慰蠀谓.
螝伪蟿维 未蔚蠉蟿蔚蟻慰谓,蟺蟻慰蟽蠁苇蟻慰蠀谓 伪蠁蔚喂未蠋蟼 胃蔚维渭伪蟿伪,渭慰蠀蟽喂魏萎,未喂伪蠁畏渭委蟽蔚喂蟼,蟺蔚蟻喂慰未喂魏维 魏伪喂 蔚魏蟺慰渭蟺苇蟼 蟽蟿伪 螠螠螘 蟺慰蠀 蠂伪位伪蟻蠋谓慰蠀谓 蟿慰谓 魏蠈蟽渭慰 魏伪喂 蠁蠀蟽喂魏维 蟺蔚蟻喂慰蟻委味慰蠀谓 蟿畏 未畏渭喂慰蠀蟻纬喂魏蠈蟿畏蟿伪,蟿畏 蠁伪谓蟿伪蟽委伪 魏伪喂 蟿畏谓 蔚位蔚蠀胃蔚蟻委伪.
螖蔚谓 蠀蟺维蟻蠂慰蠀谓 伪蟿慰渭喂魏维 未喂魏伪喂蠋渭伪蟿伪-未蔚谓 蠀蟺维蟻蠂慰蠀谓 蟺蟻慰尾位萎渭伪蟿伪.
韦蠈蟽慰 伪蟺位维.
螝伪蟿伪蟺委蔚蟽畏- 维纬谓慰喂伪- 伪蠀蟿伪蟺维蟿畏-蠁蠅蟿喂维.
螝伪委谓蔚 蟿伪 尾喂尾位委伪 纬喂伪蟿委 蔚委谓伪喂 蔚蟺喂魏委谓未蠀谓伪 纬喂伪 蟿畏 未畏渭蠈蟽喂伪 蠀纬蔚委伪.
螌蟽慰喂 位委纬慰喂 伪蟻谓慰蠉谓蟿伪喂 谓伪 伪蟺慰蠂蠅蟻喂蟽蟿慰蠉谓 蟿伪 尾喂尾位喂伪 蟿慰蠀蟼 魏伪委纬慰谓蟿伪喂 渭伪味委 蟿慰蠀蟼 魏伪喂 蟿慰 魏伪魏蠈 蟽蟿伪渭伪蟿维蔚喂 蔚魏蔚委.
螣 螕魏维喂 苇蟺蔚喂蟿伪 伪蟺慰 渭喂伪 蟿蠀蠂伪委伪 纬谓蠅蟻喂渭委伪 渭蔚 蔚谓伪 谓蔚伪蟻蠈 魏慰蟻委蟿蟽喂 蟺慰蠀 伪纬伪蟺维蔚喂 蟿慰 未喂伪尾伪蟽渭伪 魏伪喂 纬喂鈥櫸毕呄勏� 胃蔚蠅蟻蔚委蟿伪喂 蠄蠀蠂慰蟺伪胃萎蟼 魏伪喂 魏维蟺慰喂慰谓 畏位喂魏喂蠅渭苇谓慰 魏伪胃畏纬畏蟿萎 蟺慰蠀 未喂伪蟿畏蟻蔚委 蟿畏 尾喂尾位喂慰胃萎魏畏 蟿慰蠀 蟽蟿慰 渭蠀伪位蠈 蟿慰蠀, 伪位位维味蔚喂 蟻喂味喂魏维 蟿蟻蠈蟺慰 蟽魏苇蠄畏蟼 魏伪喂 味蠅萎蟼.
危蔚 伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿慰 蔚魏蟺位畏魏蟿喂魏蠈 伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽渭伪 伪谓伪未蔚喂魏谓蠉蔚蟿伪喂 蟿慰 慰位蠈位蔚蠀魏慰 蠁蠅蟼 蟿蠅谓 尾喂尾位委蠅谓 渭苇蟽伪 伪蟺慰 蟿畏谓 魏伪蟿维渭伪蠀蟻畏 蟽蟿维蠂蟿畏 蟿慰蠀蟼.
螞委纬慰喂 伪谓蟿苇蠂慰蠀谓 蟿慰 蔚魏蟿蠀蠁位蠅蟿喂魏蠈 蠁蠅蟼.
螤慰位位慰委 胃伪蠀渭维味慰蠀谓 蟿畏 蠁位蠈纬伪 蟿畏蟼 魏伪蠉蟽畏蟼 蟽蟿慰蠀蟼 451 尾伪胃渭慰蠉蟼 蟿畏蟼 魏位委渭伪魏伪蟼 桅伪蟻蔚谓维喂蟿,伪蠁慰蠉 畏 蟺谓蔚蠀渭伪蟿喂魏萎 蟿慰蠀蟼 伪尾蔚位蟿畏蟻委伪 喂魏伪谓慰蟺慰喂蔚委蟿伪喂 渭蔚 维蟻蟿慰谓 魏伪喂 胃苇伪渭伪.
螣喂 蔚位维蠂喂蟽蟿慰喂 未喂伪蟽蠋蟽蟿蔚蟼 尾喂尾位委蠅谓 魏伪喂 蟺慰位喂蟿喂蟽渭蠋谓 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺伪蟻委蔚蟼 魏伪喂 伪蟺慰未喂蠅纬渭苇谓慰喂 伪蟺慰 蟿慰蠀蟼 谓慰蟽畏蟻维 畏位委胃喂慰蠀蟼 魏伪蟿伪蟽魏蔚蠀伪蟽渭苇谓慰蠀蟼 魏伪喂 蟽蠉纬蠂蟻慰谓伪 魏位蠅谓慰蟺慰喂畏渭苇谓慰蠀蟼 蟺慰位委蟿蔚蟼.
韦慰 蟽慰魏伪蟻喂蟽蟿喂魏蠈 渭萎谓蠀渭伪 蟿慰蠀 尾喂尾位委慰蠀 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺蠅蟼 畏 伪蟺慰谓慰渭喂渭慰蟺慰委畏蟽畏 蟿蠅谓 尾喂尾位委蠅谓 未蔚谓 尉蔚魏委谓畏蟽蔚 渭蔚蟿维 伪蟺慰 魏维蟺慰喂伪 魏蠀尾蔚蟻谓畏蟿喂魏萎 未喂伪魏蠉蟻畏尉畏 萎 蟺慰位喂蟿喂魏萎 蔚蟺喂尾慰位萎.
韦慰 蠁伪喂谓蠈渭蔚谓慰 尉蔚魏委谓畏蟽蔚 渭蔚蟿维 伪蟺慰 蟿慰 蟽蠀谓未蠀伪蟽渭蠈 蟿蔚蠂谓喂魏萎蟼 蔚尉苇位喂尉畏蟼 蟿蠅谓 渭苇蟽蠅谓, 蠂蔚喂蟻伪纬蠋纬畏蟽畏蟼 蟿蠅谓 渭伪味蠋谓 魏伪喂 蠁伪谓伪蟿喂蟽渭蠈 蟿蠅谓 蔚魏维蟽蟿慰蟿蔚 渭蔚喂慰谓慰蟿萎蟿蠅谓.
螣喂 魏蠀尾蔚蟻谓萎蟽蔚喂蟼 尾慰萎胃畏蟽伪谓 尾蔚尾伪委蠅蟼 渭蔚 维蟺位蔚蟿畏 蔚蠀蠂伪蟻委蟽蟿畏蟽畏 伪位位维 未蔚谓 伪蟺伪纬蠈蟻蔚蠄伪谓 蟿伪 尾喂尾位委伪.
螣喂 委未喂慰喂 慰喂 维谓胃蟻蠅蟺慰喂,渭蔚 蠀蟺慰尾慰畏胃慰蠉渭蔚谓畏 尾慰蠉位畏蟽畏 苇蟺伪蠄伪谓 谓伪 未喂伪尾维味慰蠀谓 纬喂伪 伪蟺蠈位伪蠀蟽畏 魏伪喂 纬喂伪 纬谓蠋蟽畏 魏伪喂 魏伪位位喂苇蟻纬蔚喂伪 魏伪喂 蟺谓蔚蠀渭伪蟿喂魏维 蟿伪尉委未喂伪.
螠蠈谓慰喂 蟿慰蠀蟼 蟺蟻慰蟿委渭畏蟽伪谓 蟿畏谓 蔚蟺喂尾伪位位蠈渭蔚谓畏 魏伪喂 蟺蟻慰尾伪位位蠈渭蔚谓畏 蠄蠀蠂伪纬蠅纬委伪 渭蔚 渭畏未苇谓 未蔚委魏蟿畏 蟺谓蔚蠀渭伪蟿喂魏蠈蟿畏蟿伪蟼.
螠蠈谓慰喂 蟿慰蠀蟼 蠀蟺慰蟿委渭畏蟽伪谓 魏伪喂 蔚尉维位蔚喂蠄伪谓 蟿伪 尾喂尾位委伪.
[螕喂伪 谓伪 渭畏 纬委谓蔚喂 蟺慰蟿苇 蟺喂伪 魏伪谓蔚委蟼 芦蟿慰 胃蠉渭伪禄 蔚谓蠈蟼 蟺慰位蠀未喂伪尾伪蟽渭苇谓慰蠀 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺慰蠀...].
螤慰位位维 苇蠂慰蠀谓 未蔚喂 蟿伪 渭维蟿喂伪 渭慰蠀, 渭伪 伪蠀蟿蠈 渭慰蠀 蠁苇蟻谓蔚喂 蟿蟻蠈渭慰....
螝伪位萎 螒螡螒螕螡惟危螚!!!
September 19, 2019
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
My second time reading this dark cautionary tale from Ray Bradbury. While reading it I realized I did not remember much from the first time. Of all the post-apocalyptic tales I have read, this is probably the simplest yet most terrifying.
Published only 4 years after the book 1984, it is obvious where post WWII fears were driving our mindset. It is also very evident how modern dystopian stories have taken direction from these mid-20th Century classics. And, in our current political climate, fears like this are coming aground again: war, government control, freedom lost, etc.
If you love modern dystopia, but have not read this . . . you need to!
If you are a fan of classics and have not read this . . . you must!
It is not a happy tale - it is deeply disturbing with very little hope, but maybe the more people that are aware of its message the safer our future will be.
There is some really terrifying fan art out there for this book:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
My second time reading this dark cautionary tale from Ray Bradbury. While reading it I realized I did not remember much from the first time. Of all the post-apocalyptic tales I have read, this is probably the simplest yet most terrifying.
Published only 4 years after the book 1984, it is obvious where post WWII fears were driving our mindset. It is also very evident how modern dystopian stories have taken direction from these mid-20th Century classics. And, in our current political climate, fears like this are coming aground again: war, government control, freedom lost, etc.
If you love modern dystopia, but have not read this . . . you need to!
If you are a fan of classics and have not read this . . . you must!
It is not a happy tale - it is deeply disturbing with very little hope, but maybe the more people that are aware of its message the safer our future will be.
There is some really terrifying fan art out there for this book:
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